Booth v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
291 U.S. 339 · 1934
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 3 district · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 82 later decisions (9 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2014 · most notably Glidden Company v. Zdanok Lurk (1962), United States v. Hatter (2001)
20 federal appellate · 3 district · 19 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.
Relationships
Relies on Long v. Watts · Maxwell v. United States · C. A. P. Turner Co. v. United States · 14 La. Ann. 197 - City of New Orleans v. Lea
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 82 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[do] not, and indeed could not, endue him with a new office, different from but embracing the duties of the office of judge. He does not surrender his commission, but continues to act under it. He loses his seniority in office, but that fact, in itself, attests that he remains in office.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“found in the Act[s] of Congress authorizing retirement.”
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.