O'Donoghue v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
289 U.S. 516 · 1933
Citation profile
222 federal appellate · 79 district · 186 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 671 later decisions (54 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2020 · most notably Northern Pipeline Construction Co. v. Marathon Pipe Line Co. (1982), United States v. Raddatz (1980)
222 federal appellate · 79 district · 186 state decisions — followed in 30 states
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 Massachusetts v. Mellon · Reynolds v. States · Prentis v. Atlantic Coast Line Co. · Cohens v. Virginia · Swift & 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 671 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“object is basic and vital . . . namely, to preclude a commingling of these essentially different powers of government in the same hands.”
21 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he judicial Power of the United States shall be vested in one Supreme Court, and in such inferior courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“`It was meet that so powerful a sovereignty should have a local habitation the character of which it might absolutely control, and the government of which it should not share with the states in whose territory it exercised but a limited sovereignty, supreme, it is true, in cases where it could be exercised at all, but much restricted in the field of its operation. The object of the grant of exclusive legislation over the district was, therefore, national in the highest sense, and the city organized under the grant became the city, not of a state, not of a district, but of a nation. In the same article which granted the powers of exclusive legislation over its seat of government are conferred all the other great powers which make the nation, including the power to borrow money on the credit of the United States. He would be a strict constructionist, indeed, who should deny to congress the exercise of this latter power in furtherance of that of organizing and maintaining a proper local government at the seat of government. Each is for a national purpose, and the one may be used in aid of the other.'”
4 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.