Rand v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
249 U.S. 503 · 1919
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions (11 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2014 · most notably United States v. Felt & Tarrant Manufacturing Co. (1931), Davis v. United States (1990)
24 federal appellate · 2 district · 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 Knowlton v. Moore · United States v. Hvoslef · United States v. Fidelity Trust Co. · Weaver v. Ewers
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The act of 1912 cannot be made so compliant. It had its purpose and it is not satisfied by representative or negative action; it requires a positive and individual assertion of claim.””
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.