Barton v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
129 U.S. 249 · 1889
Citation profile
1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 1977
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. Rockwell
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“And all officers of the Navy shall be credited with the actual time they may have served' as officers or enlisted men in the regular or volunteer Army or Navy, or both, and shall ■receive all the benefits of such actual service in all respects in the same'manner as if all said service had been continuous and in the regular Navy in the lowest grade, having graduated pay, held by such officer since fast entering the service: ■ Provided, that nothing in this clause shall be so construed ts to authorize any change in the dates of commission or in the relative rank of such officers: Provided further, that .nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to give any additional pay to any such officer during the time of his service in the volunteer Army or Navy.”
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.