Day v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
245 U.S. 159 · 1917
Citation profile
44 federal appellate · 8 district · 40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 151 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2007 · most notably United States v. Winstar Corp. (1996), United States v. Spearin (1918)
44 federal appellate · 8 district · 40 state decisions — followed in 13 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.
Relationships
Relies on Globe Refining Company v. Landa Cotton Oil Company · The Kronprinzessin Cecilie · Carnegie Steel Company v. United States · Chicago St Ry Co v. Hoyt
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 151 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““One who makes a contract never can be absolutely certain that he will be able to perform it when the time comes, and the very •essence of it is that he takes the risk within the limits of his undertaking. The modern •eases may have abated somewhat the absoluteness of the older ones in determining the scope of the undertaking by the literal meaning of the words alone. * *' '* But when the scope of the undertaking is fixed, that is merely another way of saying that the contractor takes the risk of the obstacles to that ■extent.””
4 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.