MacMath v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
248 U.S. 151 · 1918
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1963 · most notably United States v. Bancroft (1922), Ehrhorn v. International Match Realization Co. (1951)
10 federal appellate · 10 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
reviewedMcMath v. United States
Relationships
Relies on Glavey v. United States · United States v. Andrews · United States v. Garlinger
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When an office with a fixed salary has been created by statute, and a person duly appointed to it has qualified and entered upon the discharge of his duties, he is entitled during his incumbency to be paid the salary prescribed by statute; and effect will not be given to any attempt to deprive him of the right thereto, whether it be by unauthorized agreement, by condition, or otherwise.””
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.