United States v. State of North Carolina’s Empirical Analysis
136 U.S. 211 · 1890
Citation profile
104 federal appellate · 27 district · 94 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 376 later decisions (54 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2014 · most notably Deputy v. du Pont (1940), Missouri v. Jenkins Ex Rel. Agyei (1989)
104 federal appellate · 27 district · 94 state decisions — followed in 24 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 Liverpool & Great Western Steam Co. v. Phenix Insurance · United States Angarica De La Rua v. Bayard · United States v. The Bank of the Metropolis · United States v. Sherman
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 376 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ When the certificate is given, the claim of the plaintiff in the suit is practically converted into a claim against the government. But not until then. Before that time the government is under no obligation, and the Secretary of the Treasury is not at liberty, to pay. When the obligation arises, it is an obligation to pay the amount recovered; that is, the amount for which judgment has been given, The act of Congress says not a word about interest. Judgments, it is true, are by the law of South Carolina, as well as by federal legislation, declared to bear interest. Such legislation, however, has no application to the government. And the interest is no part of the .amount recovered."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Interest, when not stipulated for by contract, or authorized by statute, is allowed by the courts as damages for the detention of money or of property, or of compensation, to which the plaintiff is entitled; . . In The “ Santa Maria,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A State is not liable to pay interest on its debts unless its consent to do so has been manifested by an act of its legislature OR BY A LAWFUL CONTRACT OF ITS EXECUTIVE OFFICERS, [emphasis supplied]”
2 later decisions 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.