Pope v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
323 U.S. 1 · 1944
Citation profile
114 federal appellate · 54 district · 83 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 458 later decisions (19 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2023 · most notably Glidden Company v. Zdanok Lurk (1962), National Mut Ins Co of District of Columbia v. Tidewater Transfer Co Inc (1949)
114 federal appellate · 54 district · 83 state decisions — followed in 20 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 United States v. Swift & Co. · Prentis v. Atlantic Coast Line Co. · J. I. Case Co. v. National Labor Relations Board · Swift & Co. v. United States · Nashville St Ry v. Wallace
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 458 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is a familiar practice and an exercise of judicial power for a court upon default, by taking evidence when necessary or by computation from facts of record, to fix the amount which the plaintiff is lawfully entitled to recover and to give judgment accordingly.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a judicial function and an exercise of the judicial power.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““We perceive no constitutional obstacle to Congress’ imposing on the Government a new obligation where there had been none before, * * *. the power of Congress to provide for the payment of debts, conferred by § 8 of Article I of the Constitution, is not restricted to payment of those obligations which are legally binding on the Government. It extends to the creation of such obligations in recognition of claims which are merely moral or honorary.””
2 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.