United States v. Pena’s Empirical Analysis
175 U.S. 500 · 1899
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1979 · most notably Holmgren v. United States (1910), Birkett v. Columbia Bank (1904)
13 federal appellate · 11 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 School District v. Hall · United States v. Sandoval · United States v. City of Santa Fe · Crespin v. United States
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A third proposition is that no assignment of errors is annexed to the transcript, as required by sections 997 and 1012 of the Revised Statutes. But this is not sufficient to compel a dismissal of the appeal. * * * The court may, at its option, notice a plain error.””
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.