Street v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
133 U.S. 299 · 1890
Citation profile
44 federal appellate · 9 district · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 115 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2015 · most notably Union Nat Bank of Wichita Kansas v. Lamb (1949), Reid v. United States (1909)
44 federal appellate · 9 district · 25 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 Runkle v. United States · United States v. Freeman · Brant v. Virginia Coal and Iron Company et al. · MINOR v. the Mechanics Bank of Alexandria · Morgan v. Railroad Co.
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 115 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a power that may be exercised up to and including a given day of the month may generally, when that day happens to be Sunday, be exercised on the succeeding day.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“And if any supernumerary officers shall remain after the first day of January next they shall be honorably mustered out,”
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.