Maryland Dredging Contracting Company v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
241 U.S. 184 · 1916
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1996 · most notably Priebe & Sons, Inc. v. United States (1947), United States v. Paddock (1950)
20 federal appellate · 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 Sun Printing Publishing Association v. William L Moore · United States v. Bethlehem Steel Co. · United States v. Gleason · Kihlberg v. United States · Chicago Co v. Price
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There is no element of deception or exorbitance and although the case seems a hard one we see no ground upon which the claimant can escape from the terms to which he has agreed.”
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.