Uterhart v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
240 U.S. 598 · 1916
Citation profile
66 federal appellate · 16 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 159 later decisions (25 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1966 · most notably Blair v. Commissioner (1937), Lyeth v. Hoey (1938)
66 federal appellate · 16 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.
Relationships
Relies on Knowlton v. Moore · Cooper v. Reynolds · Hertz v. Woodman · McArthur v. Scott · Eva Ingersoll v. Joseph a Coram a H
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 159 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The right to succeed to the property of the decedent depends upon and is regulated by state law * *, and it is obvious that a judicial construction * * * determines not only legally but practically the extent and character of the interests taken by the legatees.” At 418 of 36 S.Ct.”
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.