Rainey v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
232 U.S. 310 · 1914
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 12 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 93 later decisions (8 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2018 · most notably Hall v. Geiger-Jones Co. (1917), United States v. Munoz-Flores (1990)
27 federal appellate · 12 district · 9 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
reviewedUnited States v. Billings
Relationships
Relies on Knowlton v. Moore · Edye v. Robertson · Whitney v. Robertson · Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co. · Billings 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 93 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Treaties are contracts between nations and by the Constitution are made the law of the land. But the Constitution does not declare that the law so established shall never be altered or repealed by Congress. Good faith toward the other contracting nation might require Congress to refrain from making any change, but if it does act, its enactment becomes the controlling law in this country. The other nation may have ground for complaint, but every person is bound to obey the law. And as a corollary it follows that no person acquires any vested right to the continued operation of a treaty.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“there is judicial power after an act of Congress has been duly promulgated to inquire in which House it originated.”
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.