Smithmeyer v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
147 U.S. 342 · 1893
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1971
4 federal appellate · 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 Chew Heong v. United States · United States v. Great Falls Manuf'G Co · Shutte v. Thompson · Henderson's Tobacco · Campbell v. United States
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The purport of the act of 1888 seems to have been to provide a method of adjusting the claim, if the claimants so desired, without a suit. The claimants had a right to the additional method, but they could also waive its benefit. The general jurisdiction of the court of claims and the additional method of adjustment can both of them well stand together. (De Groot v. United States, 5 Wall. 419, 432 ; Gordon v. United States, 7 Wall. 188 ; Henderson’s Tobacco, 11 Wall. 652 ; Shutte v. Thompson, 15 Wall. 151 ; Bechtel v. United States, 101 U. S. 597 ; Campbell v. United States, 107 U. S. 407 ; Chew Heong v. United States, 112 U. S. 536 ; United States v. Great Falls Mfg. Co. 112 U. S. 645 ; United States v. Harmon, ante, 268).””
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.