United States v. Nixon’s Empirical Analysis
235 U.S. 231 · 1914
Citation profile
58 federal appellate · 20 district · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 120 later decisions (9 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1983 · most notably E. I. Dupont De Nemours & Co. v. Davis (1924), New York v. United States (1947)
58 federal appellate · 20 district · 20 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 United States v. James a Patten · Williams v. United States · United States v. William George · Erb v. Morasch · United States v. Harris
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 120 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““What was that statute, and on what statute the indictment was founded, was to be determined as a matter of law from the facts therein charged.””
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.