United States v. Munsey Trust Co.’s Empirical Analysis
332 U.S. 234 · 1947
Citation profile
317 federal appellate · 93 district · 100 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,231 later decisions (27 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2021 · most notably Armstrong v. United States (1960), United States v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Co. (1949)
317 federal appellate · 93 district · 100 state decisions — followed in 24 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 Prairie State Nat Bank of Chicago v. United States · Cherry Cotton Mills, Inc. v. United States · Martin v. National Surety Co. · Sunal v. Large
Cited together with Pearlman v. Reliance Insurance · Prairie State Nat Bank of Chicago v. United States · Henningsen v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. · Martin v. National Surety Co. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H
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 1,231 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The government has the same right 'which belongs to every creditor, to apply the unappropriated moneys of his debtor, in his hands, in extinguishment of the debts due to him.'”
35 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“cannot acquire by subrogation what another whose rights he claims did not have.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[NJothing is more clear than that laborers and materialmen do not have enforceable rights against the United States for their compensation_ [I]t is elementary that one cannot acquire by subrogation what another whose rights he claims did not have....”
6 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.