United States v. Thayer’s Empirical Analysis
209 U.S. 39 · 1908
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 7 district · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions (10 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1987 · most notably United Public Workers of America v. Mitchell (1947), United States of America v. American Tobacco Co. (1911)
2 federal appellate · 7 district · 30 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 Burton v. United States · United States v. Wiltberger · Johnson v. Southern Pacific Co. · United States v. Lacher · Ex parte Curtis
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. . . upon an indictment for obtaining money by false pretenses, the crime was held to have been committed at the place where drafts were put into the post by the defrauded person. Com. v. Wood, 142 Mass. 459, 462 , 8 N.E. 432 ; Reg. v. Jones, 4 Cox, C.C. 198. But these stand on the analogy of the acceptance by mail of an offer, . . . A relation already existed between the parties, and it is because of that relation that posting the letter made the transaction complete.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““No person shall, in any room or building occupied in the discharge of official duties by any officer or employee of the United State mentioned in this Act, or in any navy-yard, fort, or arsenal, solicit in any manner whatever, or receive any contribution of money or any other thing of any value for any political purpose whatever. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Wys
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.