Merritt v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
267 U.S. 338 · 1925
Citation profile
77 federal appellate · 26 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 646 later decisions (33 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2024 · most notably United States v. Mitchell (1983), Bull v. United States (1935)
77 federal appellate · 26 district · 13 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 Baltimore Co v. United States · Sutton v. United States · Tempel v. United States · Baltimore Co 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 646 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Tucker Act does not give a right of action against the United States in those cases where, if the transaction were between private parties, recovery could be had upon a contract implied in law.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“does not allege any contract, express or implied in fact”
3 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.