Henkels v. Sutherland’s Empirical Analysis
271 U.S. 298 · 1926
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 12 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 87 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2008 · most notably Guessefeldt v. McGrath (1952), Becker Steel Co of America v. Cummings (1935)
17 federal appellate · 12 district ·
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
reviewedthe decision below (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Central Union Trust Co of New York v. Garvan Merrill · Stoehr v. Wallace · United States Angarica De La Rua v. Bayard · Distilled Spirits · Duel v. Hollins
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 87 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Government cannot be sued without its consent, and accordingly it cannot be sued for interest unless it consents to be liable therefor. But the claim here is not for interest to be paid by the United States in the sense of the rule. It is for income, derived from an investment of Henkels’ money in obligations of the United States, which income has been actually received by the Treasury and is in its possession, to be held, as the proceeds themselves are to be held, for the account of the Alien Property Custodian. [Emphasis supplied] 271 U.S. at 301 , 46 S.Ct. at 526 .”
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.