United States v. Griswold’s Empirical Analysis
24 F. 361 · 1885
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2015 · most notably United States Marcus v. Hess (1943), Hughes Aircraft Company v. United States (1997)
11 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 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 Confiscation Cases · United States v. Morris · Carroll v. Alston · Bush v. United States · United States v. Griswold
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“compare with the ordinary methods as the enterprising privateer does to the slow-going public vessel.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The statute is a remedial one. It is intended to protect the treasury against the hungry and unscrupulous host that encompasses it on every side and should be interpreted accordingly.”
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.