O'Connell v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
253 U.S. 142 · 1920
Citation profile
127 federal appellate · 8 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 164 later decisions (13 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1969 · most notably Herndon v. Lowry (1937), Singer v. United States (1945)
127 federal appellate · 8 district · 12 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 Schenck v. United States · Frohwerk v. United States · Michigan Insurance Bank v. Eldred · Waldron v. Waldron · Hunnicutt v. Peyton
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 164 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘ * * * After the term [of court] has expired, without the court’s control over the case being reserved by standing rule or special order, * ■ * * all authority of the court below to allow'a bill of exceptions then first presented, or to alter or amend a bill of exceptions already allowed and filed, is at an end.’ * * * “In the present cause the terms as extended had expired before any action concerning the bill of exceptions- was taken by either court or counsel. In such circumstance's the court had no power to approve it, unless this could be conferred by mere consent of counsel. This they could not do.””
2 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.