United States v. Vulte’s Empirical Analysis
233 U.S. 509 · 1914
Citation profile
41 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 88 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2018 · most notably United States v. Dickerson (1940), Greenlee County Arizona v. United States (2007)
41 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 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 Sessions v. Romadka · Claflin v. Commonwealth Insurance · United States v. Healey · United States v. Langston · the "Abbotsford"
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 88 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'Nor ought such an intention on the part of the legislature to be presumed, unless it is expressed in the most clear and positive terms, and where the language admits of no other reasonable interpretation.' This follows naturally from the nature of appropriation bills, and the presumption hence arising is fortified by the rules of the Senate and House of Representatives.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“should not be deemed abrogated or suspended by subsequent enactments which merely appropriated a less amount . . . for particular fiscal years, and which contained no words that expressly or by clear implication modified or repealed the previous law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“beyond the limits of the states comprising the Union of the territories of the United States contiguous thereto ( except P[ue]rto Rico and Hawaii ).”
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.