Price v. Abbott’s Empirical Analysis
17 F. 506 · 1883
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions (8 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1939 · most notably Nishimura Ekiu v. United States (1892), Ex Parte Chetwood (1897)
8 federal appellate · 3 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 United States v. Hartwell · Kennedy v. Gibson · Ryan v. Koch · Case v. Terrell · United States v. Mooney
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““By the statutes of the United States, the Secretary of the Treasury is the head of the Department of the Treasury, and the Comptroller is the chief officer of a bureau in that department. * * * Being appointed, pursuant to an act of Congress, to execute duties prescribed by that act, he is, in the execution of those duties, an agent and officer of the United States.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Boyd v. Schneider“in the Rresident alone, in the • courts , of law or in the heads of departments ;”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.