United States v. Perrin’s Empirical Analysis
131 U.S. 55 · 1889
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions (13 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1985 · most notably Sparf v. United States (1895), United States v. Mayer (1914)
7 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. Northway · Jewell v. Knight · The United States v. Ephraim Briggs · Dublin Tp. v. Milford Five Cent Sav. Inst
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.
“a real question of a difficult point of law”
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.