Eberlein v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
257 U.S. 82 · 1921
Citation profile
77 federal appellate · 16 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 189 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2002 · most notably Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee v. McGrath (1951), Myers v. United States (1926)
77 federal appellate · 16 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedEberlein v. United States
Relationships
Relies on Keim v. United States · Burnap v. United States · Eastern Band of the Cherokee Indians v. United States
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 189 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There can be no question, from the findings in this case, that the plaintiff had the benefit of a hearing according to the regulations then in force. * * * But the things required by law and regulations were done, and the discretion of the authorized officers was exercised as required by law. It is settled that in such cases the action of executive officers is not subject to revision in the courts. Keim v. United States, 177 U.S. 290 , 20 S.Ct. 574 , 44 L.Ed. 774 . “The order of the President could not have the effect of reinstating the plaintiff to the office from which he was removed. The power of appointment and removal was in the Secretary of the Treasury. It was 'within the power of Congress to confer this authority on the Secretary. Burnap v. United States, 252 U.S. 512 , 40 S.Ct. 374 , 64 L.Ed. 692 .””
5 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.