United States v. Ware’s Empirical Analysis
608 F.2d 400 · 1979
Citation profile
32 federal appellate · 3 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently October 2009 · most notably Niedringhaus v. Commissioner (1992), United States v. Moore (1980)
32 federal appellate · 3 district · 3 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
Applies 26 U.S.C. § 6012
Relies on Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory · Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Reynolds v. States · Oliphant v. Suquamish Indian Tribe · Norman v. Baltimore & or
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“voluntary, intentional violation of a known legal duty”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The constitutional authority of Congress to provide a currency for the whole country is now firmly established.... “By the Constitution of the United States, the several States are prohibited from coining money, emitting bills of credit, or making anything but gold and silver coin a tender of payment of debts. But no intention can be inferred from these to deny to Congress either of these powers.... Under the power to borrow money on the credit of the United States, and to issue circulating notes for the money borrowed, its powers to define the quality and force of those notes as currency is as broad as the like power over a metallic currency under the power to coin money and to regulate the value thereof. Under the two powers, taken together, Congress is authorized to establish a national currency, either in coin or in paper and to make that currency lawful money for all purposes....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Walton v. Keim
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.