United States v. Babbit’s Empirical Analysis
66 U.S. 55 · 1861
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 16 district · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 102 later decisions (25 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1979 · most notably Luria v. United States (1913), Beer Company v. Massachusetts (1877)
28 federal appellate · 16 district · 23 state decisions — followed in 13 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 Rogers v. Kneeland · Haight v. Holley · Fox v. Phelps
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 102 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We are of opinion that the proviso referred to is not limited in its effect to the section where it is found, but that it was affirmed by Congress as an independent proposition, and applies alike to all officers of this class.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““The second proviso in the third section of the act of March 22, 1852, which declares ‘that no register or receiver shall receive for his services, during any year, a greater compensation than the maximum now allowed by law,’ is not limited in its effect to the section where it is found, but is an independent proposition, which applies alike to all officers of this class.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“shall be paid into the Treasury of the United States as other moneys.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.