Hijo v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
194 U.S. 315 · 1904
Citation profile
48 federal appellate · 38 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 212 later decisions (36 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2013 · most notably Eastport Steamship Corp. v. United States (1967), Alexander Milburn Co. v. Davis-Bournonville Co. (1926)
48 federal appellate · 38 district · 18 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 Whitney v. Robertson · United States v. Great Falls Manuf'G Co · Cherokee Tobacco · Royal Insurance Company v. Ruperto Martin
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 212 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“upon any contract, express or implied and a remedy for claims sounding in tort is expressly denied. Bigby v. United States, 188 U. S. 400 ; Hijo v. United States, 194 U. S. 315 , 323. As stated in United States v. Lynah, 188 U. S. 445 , 462, 465: “The law will imply a promise to make the required compensation, where property to which the government asserts no title, is taken, pursuant to an act of Congress, as private property to be applied for public uses”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““The government insists that the requirement in that act, that the petition shall be filed "in the district where the plaintiff resides’ precludes a suit against the United States by any person, natural or corporate, residing out of the country. We express no opinion upon that question, as there are other grounds upon which we may satisfactorily rest our decision.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“for the bringing of suits against the government of the United States,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Moon v. Hines
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.