Wayne v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1891
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1994
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.
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We now hold that the statute of limitation does not run against outstanding liabilities so entered in the books of the treasury department for whieh there is a permanent appropriation and other provisions by Rev. St. §§ 306-308, until the outstanding drafts, etc., are presented, or demand is made without the draft, and its nonproduction is properly accounted for.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ray v. United States
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.