Fields v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
205 U.S. 292 · 1907
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 5 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 1962
4 federal appellate · 5 district · 2 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Strawbridge v. Curtiss · Smith v. Whitney · Smith v. Adams · Charles Simms v. Hannah T Simms · Agueda Benedicto De La Rama v. Esteban De La Rama
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““AYhile under section 0 of the Court of Appeals act of 1891 ( 26 Stat. 828 ) a certiorari can only be issued when a writ of error cannot lie, it will not be issued merely because the writ of error will not lie: but only where the case is one of gravite, where there is conflict between decisions of state and federal courts, or between those of federal courts of different circuits, or something affecting die relations of this nation to foreign nations, or of general interest to the public.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Anderson v. Moyer
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.