Tucker v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
151 U.S. 164 · 1894
Citation profile
105 federal appellate · 4 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 143 later decisions (16 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2012 · most notably Bram v. United States (1897), In Re Peterson (1920)
105 federal appellate · 4 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 Boyd v. United States · Wilson v. United States · Lees v. United States · The United States v. Gotlieb Breitling · Hopt v. People
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 143 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““No pleading of a party, nor any discovery or evidence obtained from a party or witness by means of a judicial proceeding in this or any foreign country, shall be given in evidence, or in any manner used against him or his property or estate, in any court of the United States, in any criminal proceeding, or for the enforcement of any penalty or forfeiture: Provided, that this section shall not exempt any party or witness from prosecution and punishment for perjury committed in discovering or testifying as aforesaid.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““This instruction was refused, because it had been covered by the instructions given. In those instructions the jury were distinctly told that if the defendant, at the time of the killing, although not insane, was in such a condition of mind, by reason of drunkenness, as to be incapable of forming a specific intent to kill, or to do the act that he did do, the grade of his crime would be reduced to manslaughter.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““ ‘Discovery or evidence obtained from a party or witness by means of a‘ judicial proceeding’ includes only facts or papers which the party or witness, is compelled by subpoena, interrogatory, or other judicial process to disclose, whether he will or no; and is inapplicable to testimony voluntarily given, or to documents voluntarily produced.””
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.