Lane v. Morrison’s Empirical Analysis
246 U.S. 214 · 1918
Citation profile
5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1989
5 district ·
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
reviewed45 App. D.C. 79 - Morrison v. Lane (from District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on 45 App. D.C. 79 - Morrison v. Lane
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The only point presented for decision is whether by the language used Congress has sufficiently indicated an intent to appropriate the money in question. The bill does not challenge its power.”
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.