Monroe Cattle Co. v. Becker’s Empirical Analysis
147 U.S. 47 · 1893
Citation profile
43 federal appellate · 7 district · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 112 later decisions (11 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2013 · most notably Turner v. Sawyer (1893), Sherwood Bros. v. District of Columbia (1940)
43 federal appellate · 7 district · 28 state decisions — followed in 13 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 De La Fayette Wilcox v. John Jackson · Leavenworth Lawrence and Galveston Railroad Company v. United States · Johnson v. Towsley · Shepley v. Cowan · Hastings Co v. Whitney
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 112 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * when an act is to be performed within a certain number of days, and the last day falls on Sunday, the person charged with the performance of the act has the following day to comply with his obligation,”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“that where several parties set up conflicting claims to property, with which a special tribunal may deal, as between one party and the government, regardless of the rights of others, the latter may come into the ordinary courts of justice and litigate the conflicting claim.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Turner v. Sawyer
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.