The United States v. Charles Le Baron’s Empirical Analysis
60 U.S. 73 · 1856
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 3 district · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions (14 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2004 · most notably McElrath v. United States (1880), Moses v. United States (1897)
3 federal appellate · 3 district · 21 state decisions — followed in 15 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 James Broome Administrator De Bonis Non of Arte Macon Deceased v. The United States
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If, by any inadvertence or accident, it (the commission) should fail to reach him, his possession of the office is as lawful as if it were in his custody. It is but evidence of those acts of appointment and qualification which constitute his title, and which may be proved by other evidence, where the rule of law requiring the best evidence does not prevent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““It was resolved, that ‘from henceforth’ should be counted from the day of delivery of the indentures, and not from the day of their date;' for the words of an indenture are not of any effect until delivery.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““The delivery of a deed is presumed to have been made on the day of its date. But. this presumption maj he removed by evidence that it was delivered on some subsequent day.””
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.