Steele v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
113 U.S. 128 · 1885
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 16 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions (10 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1996 · most notably Utah Power Light Company v. United States No 202 United States (1917), Light v. United States (1911)
25 federal appellate · 16 district · 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 Gibson v. Chouteau · Lindsey v. Lessee of Miller
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“him at an agreed price was without warrant of law, and that the materials having been disposed of should be accounted for by the claimant at their true value. This contention was sustained, and this court said: “ The fact that the account of the appellant tvas settled by the officers of the Navy Department, by charging him with the value of the old material at $2000, is no bar to the recovery of its real value by the government. The whole transaction was illegal, and appellant is chargeable with knowledge of the fact.”
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.