United States v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
131 U.S. 36 · 1889
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions (9 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1950 · most notably Reid v. United States (1909), Chase v. United States (1894)
12 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 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. Drew
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““An appeal to the supreme court shall be allowed on behalf of the United States from all judgments of the court of claims adverse to the United States, and on behalf of the plaintiff in any case where the amount in controversy exceeds three thousand dollars, or where his claim is forfeited to the United States by the judgment of said court as provided in section one thousand and eighty-nine.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the modes of procedure in claiming and perfecting an appeal or writ of error shall conform in all respects, and as near as may be, to the statutes and rules of court governing appeals and writs of error in like causes ;”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“an appeal or writ of error to be perfected in accordance with the terms of the statutes and rules of practice governing the same;”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.