Heirs of Emerson v. Hall’s Empirical Analysis
38 U.S. 409 · 1839
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions (11 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2006 · most notably United States v. Realty Co. (1896), Cincinnati Soap Co. v. United States (1937)
11 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.
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"A claim having no foundation in law, but depending entirely on the generosity of the government, constitutes no basis for the action of any legal principle. It cannot be assigned. It does not go to the administrator as assets. It does not descend to the heir.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In re Ghazal“acted under no law, nor by virtue of any authority; his acts imposed no obligation, either in law or in equity, on the government.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Burgess v. G“the legal representatives of William Emerson,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Briggs v. Walker
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.