United States Hall v. Payne’s Empirical Analysis
254 U.S. 343 · 1920
Citation profile
44 federal appellate · 9 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 96 later decisions (14 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 1968 · most notably Wilbur v. United States ex rel. Kadrie (1930), Work v. United States Rives (1925)
44 federal appellate · 9 district · 1 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
reviewedthe decision below (from District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on United States of America the Riverside Oil Company v. Ethan a Hitchcock · United States ex rel. Ness v. Fisher · Brown v. Hitchcock · Litchfield v. The Register and Receiver
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 96 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““He could not administer or apply the act without construing it, and its construction involved the exercise of judgment and discretion. The view for which the relator contends was not so obviously and certainly right as to make it plainly the duty of the Secretary to give effect to it. The relator, therefore, is not entitled to a writ of mandamus.””
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.