United States of America v. Rudolph Axman’s Empirical Analysis
234 U.S. 36 · 1914
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 78 later decisions (10 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2014 · most notably United States v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. (1915), Doehler Metal Furniture Co. v. United States (1945)
8 federal appellate · 1 district · 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
reviewedUnited States v. Axman (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Prairie State Nat Bank of Chicago v. United States · Reese v. United States · United States v. Freel · United States v. John McMullen · United States v. Robeson
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 78 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“cannot be used for the measure of recovery.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]e think the change in the place of dumping the spoil was very material, and could not be made consistently with the terms of the agreement under which Axman undertook to perform the work or be liable ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Dredging the channel would not be enough to show performance of his contract, unless [Axman] complied with the other material requirement as to the deposit of the spoil.”
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.