United States v. Pitman’s Empirical Analysis
147 U.S. 669 · 1893
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2020 · most notably United States v. Finnell (1902), Chase v. United States (1894)
6 federal appellate · 1 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 McMullen 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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is clearly the duty of the officers of the court to be present at the adjourned day, and to obey the written order of the judge with respect to any further adjournment, and there is no reason why they should not receive their per diems therefor as if the judge were actually present. * * * We think the court should be deemed ‘actually in session,’ within the meaning of the law, not only when the judge is present in person, but when, in obedience to an order of the judge directing its adjournment to a certain day, the officers are present upon that day, and the journal is opened by the clerk, and the court is adjourned to another day by further direction of the judge.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““When the court is open by its own order for the transaction of business, it is in session within the meaning of this section (Eev. St. § 829 [U. S. Comp. St. 1901, p. 636]). If the court by its own order is closed for'all purposes of business for an entire day or for any given number of days, it is not in session on that day or during those days, although the current term has not expired.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““If neither of the judges of a Circuit Court be present to open and adjourn any regular or adjourned or special session, either of them may, by a written order, directed alternatively to the marshal, and, in his absence, to the clerk, adjourn the court from time to time, as the case may require, to any time before the next regular term.””
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.