Tinder v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
66 federal appellate · 3 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 99 later decisions (9 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2005 · most notably United State v. Morgan (1954), Rutledge v. United States (1996)
66 federal appellate · 3 district · 6 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedTinder v. United States (from Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Patterson v. Alabama · Minnesota v. National Tea Co. · Walling v. James V. Reuter, Inc. · Public Service Commission v. Wycoff Co.
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 99 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]his Court has power to do justice as the case requires.”
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.