United States v. Nix’s Empirical Analysis
189 U.S. 199 · 1903
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2005 · most notably United States v. Chemical Foundation, Inc. (1926), Flint v. Stone Tracy Co. (1911)
25 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 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 Townsend v. Little · United States v. Finnell · United States v. Jones · United States v. Pitman
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Inasmuch as the later act is a. general one, applicable to marshals generally throughout the country, we do not think it was intended to repeal or interfere with the former act, providing specially for persons charged with any offense or crime in the territory of Oklahoma, and that in all cases, whether the crime was committed against the Territory or the general government, the accused shall he taken before a commissioner, whose office is nearest to the place where the offense or crime was committed. The rule of statutory construction is well settled that a general act is not to be construed as applying to cases covered by a prior special act upon the same subject. On .this principle we held in Townsend v. Little, 109 U. S. 504 , that special and general statutory provisions may subsist together, ¡he former qualifying the latter. See also Churchill v. Crease, 5 Bing. 177; Magone v. King, 51 Fed. Rep. 525 , and cases cited; State v. Clarke, 25 N. J. Law. 54 .” United States v. Nix, 189 U. S. 199 , 204, 23 Sup. Ct. 495 , 498 ( 47 L. Ed. 775 ).”
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.