Wagstaff v. Collins’s Empirical Analysis
97 F. 3 · 1899
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2005
5 federal appellate · 1 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.
Relationships
Relies on Frisbie v. Whitney · Kansas Pacific Railway Co. v. Dunmeyer · United States v. Winona & St. Peter Railroad · Hutchings v. Low · Shiver v. United States
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““That where any said company shall have sold to citizens of the United States, * * * as a part of its grant, lands not conveyed to or for the use of such company, said lands being the numbered sections prescribed in the grant, and being coterminous with the constructed parts of said road, and where the lands so sold are for any reason excepted fr.om the operation of the grant to said company, it shall be lawful for the bona ñde purchaser thereof from said company to mate payment to the United States for said lands at the ordinary , government price for like lands, and thereupon patents shall issue therefor to the said bona fide purchaser, his heirs or assigns.””
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.