United States v. Dickinson’s Empirical Analysis
213 U.S. 92 · 1909
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions (20 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1991 · most notably Di Bella v. United States (1962), Singer v. United States (1965)
16 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedDickinson v. United States (from First Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Ex parte Lange · 'The Ku-Klux Cases' Yarbrough · The Paquete Habana · United States v. Sanges · Strawbridge v. Curtiss
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““But the distinction between preventing excesses of jurisdiction and the mere correction of error is a fundamental one, and the rule remains that appeal and writ of error, being the proper forms of procedure provided for the mere correction of error, the appellate jurisdiction of this court for that purpose Is limited to the cases in which express provision is made for appeals or writs of error, and that certiorari cannot be independently used to supply the place of a writ of error for the mere correction of error. ’’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“In any case, civil or criminal, in which the judgment or decree of the circuit court of appeals is made final by the provisions of this Title, it shall be competent for the Supreme Court to require, by certiorari or otherwise, upon the petition of ayy party thereto, any such case to be certified to the Supreme Court for its review and determination, with the same power and authority in the case as if it had been carried by appeal or writ of error to the Supreme Court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“•'Excepting Unit iu every such subject within such appellate jurisdiction 1he Circuit Court ol: Appeals at any time may certify to the ¡Supreme Court of ilie United States any questions and propositions of law concerning which it desires the instruction of that court for its proper decision.””
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.