Union Naval Stores Company v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
240 U.S. 284 · 1916
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 1985 · most notably Sherbert v. Verner (1963), Mason v. United States (1923)
25 federal appellate · 15 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
reviewedUnion Naval Stores Co. v. United States (from Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Joseph Guffey v. James a Smith · Bolles Wooden Ware Co v. United States · Distilled Spirits · Holt v. Henley · The "Idaho."
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘"The boxing oí trees by a settlor on public land covered by an unporfected homestead entry, or by any person who knew it was public land (which an unperí'ected homestead entry is), and the extracting of crude turpentine therefrom, constitutes in law an intentional, willful trespass, although he may have acted without knowledge of, the illegality of the act, and that from such persons the United States are entitled to recover the value of the product manufactured from such crude turpentine by the settler, or from any person into whose possession the same may have passed.””
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.