Horowitz v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
267 U.S. 458 · 1925
Citation profile
54 federal appellate · 17 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 468 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2022 · most notably United States v. Winstar Corp. (1996), Berizzi Bros Co v. The Pesaro (1926)
54 federal appellate · 17 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.
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 468 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In this court the United States appear simply as contractors; and they are to be held liable only within the same limits that any other defendant would be in any other court. Though their sovereign acts performed for the general good may work injury to some private contractors, such parties gain nothing by having the United States as their defendants.”
27 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.