State v. Delesdenier’s Empirical Analysis
1851
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently August 1996 · most notably Leavenworth Lawrence and Galveston Railroad Company v. United States (1875), Barshop v. Medina County Underground Water Conservation District (1996)
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 33 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Appropriation of land by the government is nothing more nor less than setting it apart for some particular use; and, whenever a tract of land shall have once been legally appropriated to any purpose, from that moment the land thus appropriated becomes severed from the mass of public domain [etc.] * * * Having lost the character of `public lands,' it could not regain that character, except by direct and express terms.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. De Shazo v. Eubank“interpreted according to the intention of the Legislature, apparent upon its face. Every technical rule, as to the construction or force of particular terms, must yield to the clear expression of the paramount will of the Legislature.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.