United States v. Britton’s Empirical Analysis
107 U.S. 655 · 1882
Citation profile
228 federal appellate · 64 district · 47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 455 later decisions (22 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2025 · most notably Swift Company v. United States (1905), Coffin v. United States (1895)
228 federal appellate · 64 district · 47 state decisions — followed in 20 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 United States v. Carll · United States v. Cook · United States v. Simmons · United States v. Mills
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 455 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We think the willful misapplication made an offense by this statute means a misapplication for the use, benefit, or gain of the party charged, or of some company or person other than the association. Therefore, to constitute the offense of willful misapplication, there must be a conversion to his own use or the use of some one else of the moneys and funds of the association by the party charged.””
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“are, so far as we know, new in statutes creating offenses, and they are not used in describing any offense at common law. They have no settled meaning like the word”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“to injure or defraud the [banking] association or any other company or body politic or corporate, or any individual person, or to deceive any [bank] officer . . ., or any agent appointed to examine the affairs of [the bank] . . . .”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.