United States v. Morrow’s Empirical Analysis
266 U.S. 531 · 1925
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 86 later decisions (20 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably United States v. Katz (1926), County of Yakima v. Confederated Tribes and Bands of Yakima Indian Nation Confederated Tribes and Bands of Yakima Indian Nation (1992)
31 federal appellate · 9 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 Brushaber v. Union Pacific Railroad · Cox v. Hart · Georgia Railroad & Banking Co. v. Smith · White v. United States · United States v. G. Falk & Brother
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 86 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * The general office of a proviso is to except something from the enacting clause, or to qualify and restrain its generality and prevent misinterpretation. * * * [United States v. Morrow, 266 U.S. 531 , 534, 45 S.Ct. 173 , 174, 69 L.Ed. 425 (1925).]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“refers only to the provision to which it is attached.”
1 later decision 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.