United States v. Reyburn’s Empirical Analysis
31 U.S. 352 · 1832
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 2 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently March 2021 · most notably United States v. Manton (1938), Lisansky v. United States (1929)
28 federal appellate · 2 district · 11 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 The Estrella · Commonwealth v. Snell · 2 Serg. & Rawle 23 - Gray v. Pentland · Garretson v. Lingan
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Hules of evidence are adopted for practical purposes in the administration of justice, and must be so applied as to promote the ends for which they are designed.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““If it should be admitted that a record is there [at Buenos_ Ayres] to be found of this instrument, and that on application a copy of it might have been procured, it would be carrying the rule to pretty extravagant lengths to require the application to be made.””
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.