Webster v. Luther’s Empirical Analysis
163 U.S. 331 · 1896
Citation profile
46 federal appellate · 7 district · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 146 later decisions (23 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2019 · most notably Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. (1984), Williamson v. United States (1908)
46 federal appellate · 7 district · 29 state decisions — followed in 14 states
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 Bate Refrigerating Co. v. Sulzberger · United States v. Healey
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 146 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“But this court has often said that it will not permit the practice of an Executive Department to defeat the obvious purpose of a statute.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Every person entitled, under the provisions of section twenty-three hundred and four, to enter a homestead who may have heretofore entered, under the homestead laws, a quantity of land less than one hundred and sixty acres, shall be permitted to enter so much land as, when added to th'e quantity previously entered, shall not exceed one hundred and sixty acres.” .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The practical construction given to an act of Congress, fairly susceptible of different constructions, by those charged with the duty of executing it is entitled to great respect and, if acted upon for a number of years will not be disturbed except for cogent reasons.”
2 later decisions 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.