Sanborn v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
135 U.S. 271 · 1890
Citation profile
54 federal appellate · 20 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 151 later decisions (20 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2021 · most notably Board of Com'rs of Jackson County Kan v. United States (1939), Royal Indemnity Co. v. United States (1941)
54 federal appellate · 20 district · 18 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 Redfield v. Ystalyfera Iron Co. · United States v. Sanborn
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 151 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In other words, when the government is successful in a suit, the ‘necessary expenses’ of its witnesses, of the class described in section 850, take the place, in its bill of 'Costs, of the per diem and mileage which, but for that section, would have been taxed and allowed in its favor, just as a marshal may elect to take his actual traveling expenses instead of mileage where mileage is allowed to him.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““In Redfield v. Iron Co., 110 U. S. 174 , 3 Sup. Ct. 570 , the question was whether the plaintiff was entitled, under the circumstances of that case, to recover interest; the action being against a collector to recover damages for an illegal exaction of customs dues. The court, after observing that interest is recoverable as of right, when reserved expressly in the contract, or when implied by the nature of the promise, said: ‘But where interest is recoverable, not as part of the contract, but by way of damages, if the plaintiff has been guilty of laches, in unreasonably delaying the prosecution of his claim, it may be properly withheld.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jourolmon v. Ewing““When any clerk or other officer of the United States is sent away from his place of business as a witness for the government, his necessary expenses, stated in items and sworn to, in going, returning, and attendance on the court, shall be audited and paid, but no mileage or other compensation in addition to his salary shall in any case be allowed.””
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.