United States v. Finnell’s Empirical Analysis
185 U.S. 236 · 1902
Citation profile
45 federal appellate · 17 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 117 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2018 · most notably Bates & Guild Co. v. Payne (1904), The Wilderness Society v. Rogers C. B. Morton, Secretary of the Interior (1973)
45 federal appellate · 17 district · 24 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 Wisconsin Central Railroad v. United States · United States v. Alabama Great Southern Railroad · United States v. Johnston · Edwards' Lessee v. Darby · United States v. Philbrick
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 117 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““As will be seen from those sections, the District and Gircuit Courts of the United States are always open for the transaction of certain kinds of business which, we think, may be transacted under orders of the judge, who may at the time be absent from the place, room, or building in which the court is held. The business transacted by the appellee was such as could be transacted by the clerk under the orders of the judge. It is too narrow an interpretation of the statute to. hold that such business was not actually transacted in court.””
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.