United States v. Fisher’s Empirical Analysis
109 U.S. 143 · 1883
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 10 district · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 87 later decisions (20 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2014 · most notably Glidden Company v. Zdanok Lurk (1962), Dodge v. Board of Education (1937)
15 federal appellate · 10 district · 19 state decisions — followed in 12 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. Tynen · Town of Red Rock v. Henby · Clinton v. Englebrecht · John Butler Levi Reynolds Junior and William Overfield Late Board of Canal Commissioners of Pennsylvanias v. The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · David Wilkinson v. Thomas Leland
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 87 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"....'When to these facts is added that the plaintiff with his first commission received notice that the salary was to be $1,500, as had been for years theretofore appropriated by Congress, and on reappointment that it was $1,000, and that during the years of his service he received the appropriations and receipted for them as in full payment for his services, we think it must be adjudged that he has received all that of right and by law he is entitled to receive, and that the judgment of the Court of Claims should, therefore, be affirmed. ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“We cannot adopt the view of the appellee, unless we eliminate from the statute the words ‘ in full compensation,’ which Congress, abandoning the long used form of the appropriation acts, has ex industria inserted. Our duty is to give them effect. When Congress has said that the sum appropriated shall be in full compensation of the services of the appellee, we cannot say that it shall not be in full compensation, and allow him a greater sum.”
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.