United States v. Dumas’s Empirical Analysis
149 U.S. 278 · 1893
Citation profile
39 federal appellate · 13 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 82 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2018 · most notably Sontag Chain Stores Co Limited v. National Nut Co of California (1940), Robert I. Powell v. Eugene M. Zuckert (1966)
39 federal appellate · 13 district · 5 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 McLean v. Fleming · Galliher v. Cadwell · Mahn v. Harwood · Miller v. Brass Co. · Speidel v. Henrici
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 82 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““As to the competency, merely, of this evidence, there can be no question, for it is provided by section 889, Rev. St., that ‘in any civil suit in case of delinquency of any postmaster or contractor, a statement of the account, certified as aforesaid, shall be admitted in evidence, and the court shall be authorized thereupon to give judgment and award execution, subject to the provisions of law as to proceedings in such civil suits.’ ””
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.