United States v. Alger’s Empirical Analysis
151 U.S. 362 · 1894
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions (9 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1922
1 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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 Thornley v. United States · United States v. Hendee · Werner v. City Council of Charleston · United States v. Cook
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A resignation the very day before an appointment to a higher office, and when such appointment must have been known of and counted upon, was evidently tendered with no intention of leaving the service, and was hut equivalent to a resignation which the law would have implied from acceptance of the higher office.””
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.