Martin v. Marks’s Empirical Analysis
97 U.S. 345 · 1877
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions (9 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 1928 · most notably Wright v. Roseberry (1887), Michigan Land & Lumber Co. v. Rust (1897)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 11 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 French v. Fyan · Railroad Company v. Smith
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““That the selection of swamp and overflowed lands granted to the several states by the act of Congress approved September 28, 1850, * * * and heretofore made and reported to the Commissioner of the General Land Office, so far as the same shall remain vacant and unappropriated, and not interfered with by an actual settlement under any existing laws of the United States, be and the same are hereby confirmed, and shall be approved and patented to the said several states, in conformity with the provisions of the act aforesaid, as soon as may be practicable after the passage of this law.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Tbe above certificate of what took place in the office of the surveyor general shows what was the course adopted in Louisiana to secure the identification and lists of swamp lands in that state, and a similar course was elsewhere pursued. But these selections, though approved by the surveyor general, who was merely a local officer, still lacked the authentication of the Secretary of the Interior, to whom alone Congress had confided the duty of confirming them, or making them for himself.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Kerns v. Lee““It seems that, seven years after the passage of the swamp land grant, this failure of the Secretary to act had become a grievance, for which Congress deemed it necessary to provide a remedy, by the act of March 3, 1857.””
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.