United States v. Alexander’s Empirical Analysis
148 U.S. 186 · 1893
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 3 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions (15 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2005 · most notably Lindsley v. Natural Carbonic Gas Co. (1911), United States v. Arthur Lynah (1903)
4 federal appellate · 3 district · 8 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 Pumpelly v. Green Bay Co. · Great Falls Manufacturing Co. v. Attorney General · Ball v. Nye · Trowbridge v. Inhabitants of Brookline
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the act of congress under which this public work was done”
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.