United States v. Post’s Empirical Analysis
148 U.S. 124 · 1893
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 2 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1974 · most notably United States v. Townsley (1945), Filardo v. Foley Bros. (1948)
10 federal appellate · 2 district · 13 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 United States v. Truesdell · Post 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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This extra pay is given to him by the statute distinctly for his being employed a greater number of hours per day than eight. The statute does not say how he must be employed, or of what such employment is to consist. It is necessary only that he should be a letter carrier, and be employed in work that is not inconsistent with his general business under his employment as a letter carrier.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Hereafter eight hours shall constitute a day’s work for letter carriers in cities and postal districts connected therewith, for which they shall receive the same sum as is now paid for a greater number of hours. If any carrier is employed a greater number of hours than eight he shall be paid for the same in proportion to the salary now fixed by law.””
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.