United States v. Eliason’s Empirical Analysis
41 U.S. 291 · 1842
Citation profile
39 federal appellate · 16 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 120 later decisions (24 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2019 · most notably Reid v. Covert (1957), Myers v. United States (1926)
39 federal appellate · 16 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.
Relationships
Relies on Minis v. United States · Miller United States v. Nicholls · Inglee v. Coolidge · Tucker v. Oxley
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 120 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The power of the executive to establish rules and regulations for the government' of the army is undoubted. * * * The power to establish implies, necessarily, the power to modify or repeal, or to create anew. The secretary of -war is the regular constitutional organ of the president for the administration of the military establishment of the nation, and rules and orders publicly promulgated through him must be received as the acts of the executive, and, as such, be binding upon all, within the sphere of his legal and constitutional authority. Such regulations cannot be questioned or denied because they may be thought unwise or mistaken.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The power of the executive to establish rules and regulations for the government of the army, is undoubted”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Nothing appears upon the record, but the general verdict; whereby the parties are precluded from the benefit of a writ of error.””
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.