Moller v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
57 F. 490 · 1893
Citation profile
3 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently January 1911
3 federal appellate ·
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 Rector Etc of Holy Trinity Church v. United States · Leisy v. Hardin · Welton v. The State of Missouri · Leloup v. Port of Mobile · British Queen Mining Co. v. Baker Silver Mining Co.
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The bill of exceptions, which purports to he a finding of facts, is nothing more than a recapitulation of conflicting evidence, where, as recited therein, some witnesses testified one way and others testified directly to flic contrary. It is neither a statement of facts by the parties nor a finding of facts by the court. Raimond v. Terrebonne Parish, 132 U. S. 192 , 10 Sup. Ct. 57 ; Glenn v. Fant, 134 U. S. 308 , 10 Sup. Ct. 583 ; Davenport v. Paris, 136 U. S. 580 , 10 Sup. Ct. 1064 : British Queen Min. Co. v. Baker Silver-Min. Co., 139 U. S. 222 , 11 Sup. Ct 323 . We suggest to the members of the bar in this circuit that an examination of those last-cited cases will be advantageous if hereafter, in common-law cases, they should desire to bring facts to this court for review.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““We suggest to the members of the bar in this circuit that an examination of these last-cited cases will be advantageous, if, hereafter, in common-law cases, they shall desire to bring facts to this court for review.””
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.