United States v. Alger’s Empirical Analysis
152 U.S. 384 · 1894
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1976 · most notably Fairbank v. United States (1901), Liberty Warehouse Co. v. Burley Tobacco Growers' Co-operative Marketing Ass'n (1928)
9 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 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 McElrath v. United States · McDonald v. Hovey · United States v. Philbrick · United States v. Burchard · United States v. Graham
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If the meaning of that act were doubtful, its practical construction by the Navy Department would be entitled to great weight. But as the meaning of the statute, as applied to these cases, appears to this court to be perfectly clear, no practice inconsistent with that meaning can have any effect.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Knight v. Shelton
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.