Hollerbach v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
233 U.S. 165 · 1914
Citation profile
131 federal appellate · 23 district · 184 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 559 later decisions (26 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2023 · most notably Lynch v. United States (1934), United States v. Spearin (1918)
131 federal appellate · 23 district · 184 state decisions — followed in 32 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedHollerbach v. United States
Relationships
Relies on Hobbs v. McLean · Shappirio v. Goldberg · Bock v. Perkins · United States v. Mescall
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 559 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the government wished to leave the matter open to the independent investigation of the claimants, it might easily have omitted the specification as to the character of the filling back of the dam.”
16 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““20. It is understood and agreed that the quantities given are approximate only, and that no claim shall be made against the United States on account of any excess or deficiency, absolute or relative, in the same. Bidders, or their authorized agents, are expected to examine the maps and drawings in this office, which are open to their inspection, to visit the locality of the work, and to make their own estimates of the facilities and difficulties attending the execution of the proposed contract, including local conditions, uncertainty or weather, and all other contingencies.” 233 U. S. at 167 .”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““As the contractors proceeded with the work of removing the material behind the dam if was found that said dam was not backed with broken stone, sawdust, and sediment as stated in paragraph 33 of the specifications, but that said backing was composed of a soft slushy sediment from a height of about 2 feet from the crest to an average depth of 7 feet, and below that to the bottom of the required excavation said dam was backed by cribwork of an average height of 4.3 feet consisting of sound logs filled with stones. ’ ’”
2 later decisions 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.