Smithmeyer v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1890
Citation profile
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cited by 1 later decisions
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cited 1 times by the Supreme Court
January 1893
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Most-quoted passages
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“Description of the plans for a new building for the Congressional Library,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“three persons of suitable skill and attainments”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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