Robertson v. Downing’s Empirical Analysis
127 U.S. 607 · 1888
Citation profile
58 federal appellate · 21 district · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 175 later decisions (20 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1989 · most notably Myers v. United States (1926), Fairbank v. United States (1901)
58 federal appellate · 21 district · 15 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 Brown v. United States · United States v. Philbrick · United States v. Hill
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 175 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Tlie regulation of a department of tlie government is not, of course, to control the construction of an act of Congress, when its meaning is plain. But when there has been a long acquiescence in a regulation, and. by it rights of parties for many years have been determined and adjusted, it is not to be disregarded without the most cogent and persuasive reasons.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The duties were not finally liquidated until the 24th of May, 3SS2. The time to protest did not begin to run until then. The previous liquidation on tlie 5th of May was necessarily abandoned by the correction subsequently made.””
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.