Hartman v. Warren’s Empirical Analysis
76 F. 157 · 1896
Citation profile
14 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1979
14 federal appellate ·
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.
Relationships
Relies on St.louis Smelting and Refining Company v. Kemp. · Johnson v. Towsley · Shepley v. Cowan · Hastings Co v. Whitney · Witherspoon v. Duncan
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““After a deliberate consideration of all the terms of the act of lSSOrqn the light of the legislation for the disposition of the public lands in force when it was enacted, all doubt of its true construction has been dispelled, and we have become satisfied that the preferred right to enter laud granted to the contestant by the second section of that act was granted to the successful contestant of a pre-emption, homestead, or timber culture entry only.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Howell v. Sappington““In all cases where any person has contested, paid the land office fees, and procured the cancellation of any pre-emption, homestead, or timber culture entry, he shall he notified by the register of the land office of the district in which such land is situated, of such cancellation, and shall have thirty days from the date of such notice to enter said lands.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Howell v. Sappington
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.