United States v. Knox’s Empirical Analysis
128 U.S. 230 · 1888
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1968
5 federal appellate · 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 United States v. Wallace · Clyde v. United States
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Instead of being a rule of practice, it was really an additional restriction of tbe exercise of jurisdiction by that court. It required' tbe claimant to do wbat tbe act giving tbe courts jurisdiction did not require bim to do, before it would assume jurisdiction of bis case.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Tbe presentation, therefore, of tbe present case to tlie officers of tbe government charged with the auditing of such accounts in tbe treasury department, was not necessary to give the court of claims jurisdiction.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“in substance, that the action of the auditing department, either in allowing or rejecting such a claim, was not an essential prerequisite to the jurisdiction of the Court of Claims to hear it.”
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.