United States v. Mayer’s Empirical Analysis
235 U.S. 55 · 1914
Citation profile
506 federal appellate · 87 district · 79 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 929 later decisions (80 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably Browder v. Director Department of Corrections of Illinois (1978), Hill v. United States (1962)
506 federal appellate · 87 district · 79 state decisions — followed in 26 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
reviewedUnited States v. 1,621 Pounds of Fur Clippings (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Ball v. United States · McClellan v. Carland · Kepner v. United States · State of Minnesota v. Ethan Allen Hitchcock
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 929 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In cases of prejudicial misconduct in the course of the trial, the misbehavior or partiality of jurors, and newly discovered evidence, as well as where it is sought to have the court in which the ease was tried reconsider its rulings, the remedy is by a motion for a new trial (Judicial Code, § 269 [28 USCA § 391]) — an application which is addressed to the sound discretion of the trial court, and, in accordance with the established, principles which have been repeatedly set forth in the decisions of this court above cited, cannot be entertained, in the absence of a different statutory rule, after the expiration of the term at which the judgment was entered.””
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“to bring before the court that pronounced the judgment errors in matters of fact which had not been put in issue or passed upon and were material to the validity and regularity of the legal proceeding itself . . .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““In the absence of a statute providing otherwise, the general principle obtains that a court cannot set aside or alter its final judgment after the expiration of the term at which it was entered,” etc.”
3 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.