Reeside v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis
52 U.S. 272 · 1850
Citation profile
51 federal appellate · 12 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 153 later decisions (23 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2024 · most notably Feres v. United States (1950), Office of Personnel Management v. Richmond (1990)
51 federal appellate · 12 district · 18 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 William Marbury v. James Madison · Walton v. United States · United States v. Wilkins · United States v. Giles
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 153 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“However much money may be in the Treasury at any one time, not a dollar of it can be used in the payment of any thing not thus previously sanctioned.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““It is well settled, too, that no action of any kind can be sustained against the government itself, for any supposed debt, unless by its own consent, under some special statute allowing it, which is not pretended to exist here. (Citation omitted.) “The sovereignty of the government not only protects it against suits directly, but against judgments even for cost, when it fails in prosecutions.””
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.