Smyth v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
302 U.S. 329 · 1937
Citation profile
42 federal appellate · 18 district · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 190 later decisions (18 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2025 · most notably Library of Congress v. Shaw (1986), Board of Com'rs of Jackson County Kan v. United States (1939)
42 federal appellate · 18 district · 31 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 Lynch v. United States · Roehm v. Horst · Norman v. Baltimore & or · Seaboard Air Line Railway Co. v. United States · Perry 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 190 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“' "[T]he doctrine of anticipatory breach has in general no application to unilateral contracts, and particularly to such contracts for the payment of money only.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“‘ ‘ The allowance of interest in eminent domain cases is only an apparent exception, which has its origin in the Constitution. ’ ’”
3 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.