Reynolds v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
292 U.S. 443 · 1934
Citation profile
54 federal appellate · 34 district · 54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 224 later decisions (20 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2016 · most notably Landgraf v. USI Film Products (1994), Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Corp. v. Bonjorno (1990)
54 federal appellate · 34 district · 54 state decisions — followed in 14 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 Cox v. Hart · Silberschein v. United States · United States v. Williams
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 224 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] statute [the Exchange rule or standard in this case] is not rendered retroactive merely because the facts or requisites upon which its subsequent action depends, or some of them, are drawn from a time antecedent to the enactment.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he liability for board arose from continuous charges, beginning before the proviso was passed and ending at the time of petitioner's discharge.”
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.