United States v. Ammen Farenholt’s Empirical Analysis
206 U.S. 226 · 1907
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently October 2017 · most notably Hudson County Water Co. v. McCarter (1908), Carroll v. Ragsdale (1941)
7 federal appellate · 6 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 United States v. Crosley · Richardson v. United States
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A court is not always confined to the written word. Construction sometimes is to be exercised as well as interpretation. And ‘construction is the drawing of conclusions respecting subjects that lie beyond the direct expression of the text from elements known from and given in the text — conclusions which are in the spirit, though not within the letter of the text.’ Lieber, 56.” United States v. Earenholt, 206 U. S. 226 , 229, 27 Sup. Ct. 629 , 631 [ 51 L. Ed. 1036 ].”
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.