United States of America, Cross-Appellee v. Joseph C. Eaves, Cross-Appellants’s Empirical Analysis
499 F.2d 869 · 1974
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1992
5 federal appellate · 3 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 United States v. Overman · Washington v. United States · Broday v. United States · United States v. Hershberger · United States v. Boyd
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The court . . . may decree a sale of such property, by the proper officer of the court, and a distribution of the proceeds of such sale according to the findings of the court in respect to the interests of the parties and of the United States.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Tillery v. Parks“once the validity of the lien has been established,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Tillery v. Parks
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.