United States v. Lindsay’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
41 federal appellate · 15 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 145 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2024 · most notably Rotella v. Wood (2000), 133 S. Ct. 1216 - Gabelli v. Securities & Exchange Commission (2013)
41 federal appellate · 15 district · 10 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
reviewedUnited States v. Lindsay (from First Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Lynch v. United States · Chase Securities Corp. v. Donaldson · United States v. Summerlin · Brewster v. Gage · Hassett v. Welch
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 145 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In common parlance a right accrues when it comes into existence.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““No suit by or against the (Commodity Credit) Corporation shall be allowed unless * * * it shall have been brought within six years after the right accrued on which suit is brought * *”
1 later decision 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.