Sutherland v. Mayer’s Empirical Analysis
271 U.S. 272 · 1926
Citation profile
34 federal appellate · 21 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 79 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2011 · most notably Die Deutsche Bank Filiale Nurnberg v. Humphrey (1926), Tagle v. Regan (1981)
34 federal appellate · 21 district · 7 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
reviewedMayer v. Garvan (from First Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Miller v. Robertson · United States v. Moser · United States Angarica De La Rua v. Bayard · New York Life Insurance Company v. Statham et al. · Oklahoma v. Textas
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 79 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Private rights and duties are affected by war only so far as they are incompatible with the rights of war. * * * Agencies, created before the war, and not requiring intercourse across the enemy’s frontier, such as for the collection of debts, preservation of property, and so forth, are not terminated by war.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“and to recognize, increasingly, that the normal interrelations of the citizens of the respective belligerents are not to be interfered with when such interference is unnecessary to the successful prosecution of the war. Private rights and duties are affected by war only so far as they are incompatible with the rights of war. 52 Sutherland v. Mayer, 271 U.S. 272 , 287-88, 46 S.Ct. 538, 540, 70 L.Ed. 943 (1926). 53 Two points are clear. First,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Tagle v. Regan“Blame for such a situation rests upon neither; and equality is equity.”
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.