Ex parte Reed’s Empirical Analysis
100 U.S. 13 · 1879
Citation profile
94 federal appellate · 24 district · 45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 310 later decisions (59 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2022 · most notably Reid v. Covert (1957), Schlesinger v. Councilman (1975)
94 federal appellate · 24 district · 45 state decisions — followed in 21 states
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 Ex Parte Milligan · Windsor v. McVeigh · Ex Parte Tobias Watkins · Henry Wheaton v. Richard Peters
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 310 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The place of paymaster’s clerk is an important one in the machinery of the navy. Their appointment must be approved by the commander of the ship. Their acceptance and agreement to submit to the laws and regulations for the government and discipline of the navy must be in writing, and filed in the Department. ■ They must take an oath, and bind themselves to serve until discharged. The discharge must be by the appointing . power, and approved in the same manner as the appointment. They are required to wear the uniform of the service; they have a fixed rank; they are upon the pay roll, and are paid accordingly. They may also become entitled to a pension and to bounty land. . . . If these officers are not in the naval service, it may well be asked who are.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“(<The constitutionality of the acts of Congress touching army and- navy courts martial in this country, -if there could ever have been a doubt about it, is no longer an open question in this court. Const., art. 1, sect. 8, and amendment 5. In Dynes v. Hoover, ( 20 How. 65 ) the subject was fully considered and their validity affirmed.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Kahn v. Anderson“the orders, regulations and instructions issued by the Secretary of the Navy prior to July 14, 1862, with such alterations as he may since have adopted, with the approval of the Presidént, shall be recognized as the Begulations of the Navy, subject to alterations adopted in the same manner.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Smith v. Whitney
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.