Public-domain · open source
OpenJurist
← 31 U.S. 470 - The United States v. Joseph Nourse

The United States v. Joseph Nourse’s Empirical Analysis

31 U.S. 470 · 1832

Citation profile

27
cited by 27 later decisions
6
cited 6 times by the Supreme Court
5
states following
May 1993
most recently cited

2 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 27 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1993 · most notably Cannon v. University of Chicago (1979), United States v. Lee (1882)

2 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 state decisions

6018321840185018601870188018901900191019201930194019501960197019801990decided

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 United States v. Lawrence · Young v. Grundy · Carter's Heirs v. Cutting · The United States v. John Goodwin

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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “providing for the better organization of the treasury department,”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “an act for the better organization of the treasury, department.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage

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.