Jacobs v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
161 F. 694 · 1908
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1957
6 federal appellate · 1 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 Coffin v. United States · Fitzpatrick v. United States · Frisbie v. United States · Hopkins v. Grimshaw · John Stein v. William Bowman
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““He offers himself as a witness, and therefore puts himself in the position of any other witness, so far that he may be examined with reference to anything pertinent to the case and admissible in evidence therein.””
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.