Snow v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
118 U.S. 346 · 1886
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 7 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 81 later decisions (30 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2012 · most notably Brown Shoe Co. v. United States (1962), United States v. L. A. Tucker Truck Lines, Inc. (1952)
8 federal appellate · 7 district · 10 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 Reynolds v. States · Kurtz v. Moffitt · Cannon v. United States · Bethell v. Demaret
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 81 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an appeal or writ of error may be brought without regard to the sum or value in dispute,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“shall be allowed to the Supreme Court of the United States in the same manner and under the same regulations as from the Circuit Courts of the United States, where the value of the property or the amount in controversy exceeds $1000.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The question of jurisdiction was not considered in fact in that case, nor alluded to in the decision, nor presented to the court by the counsel for the United States, nor referred to by either party at the argument or in the briefs-. Probably both parties desired a decision on the merits.”
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.