United States v. Shaw’s Empirical Analysis
39 F. 433 · 1889
Citation profile
1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1939
1 district · 1 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.
Relationships
Relies on Osborn v. President Directors and Company of the Bank of the United States · Hess v. Reynolds · Fink v. O'Neil · United States v. Herron · King v. Cornell
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““That the circuit courts of the United States shall 'have original cognizance * * * of all suits of a civil nature, at common law or in equity, * * * in which controversy the United States are plaintiffs or petitioners.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.