The United States v. Joseph Nourse’s Empirical Analysis
31 U.S. 470 · 1832
Citation profile
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
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.
“providing for the better organization of the treasury department,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. United States v. Cox“an act for the better organization of the treasury, department.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. United States v. Cox
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.