Benedict v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
176 U.S. 357 · 1900
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 7 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions (8 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 1990 · most notably Crandon v. United States (1990), Burton v. United States (1906)
17 federal appellate · 7 district · 16 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 Commonwealth ex rel. Wolfe v. Butler · Landis v. Lincoln County · Castle v. Lawlor · State ex rel. Davis v. Newman
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The word 'salary' may be defined generally as a fixed annual or periodical payment for services, depending upon the time and not upon the amount of services rendered”
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.