United States v. Worley’s Empirical Analysis
281 U.S. 339 · 1930
Citation profile
166 federal appellate · 36 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 365 later decisions (27 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2011 · most notably Lowden v. Northwestern Nat Bank & Trust Co of Minneapolis Minn (1936), United States v. Bodcaw Co. (1979)
166 federal appellate · 36 district · 24 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
reviewedthe decision below (from Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on United States v. Chemical Foundation, Inc. · United States v. Mayer · Seaboard Air Line Railway Co. v. United States · Georgia Railroad & Banking v. Redwine · White 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 365 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in the absence of a statute directly authorizing it, courts will not give judgment against the United States for costs or expenses.”
10 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.