United States v. Wallace’s Empirical Analysis
116 U.S. 398 · 1886
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 13 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions (9 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1951 · most notably United States v. Ewing (1891), United States v. Jones (1890)
10 federal appellate · 13 district · 2 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.
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““For fees of commissioners and justices of the peace acting as commissioners, $50,000: provided that for issuing any warrant or writ, and for any other necessary service, commissioners may be paid the same compensation as is allowed to clerks for like services, but they shall not be entitled to any docket fees.””
4 later decisions 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.