United States v. Hess’s Empirical Analysis
71 F.2d 78 · 1934
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently January 2006
13 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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 33 U.S.C. § 591 · 33 U.S.C. § 702A · 33 U.S.C. § 702D · 40 U.S.C. § 3113
Relies on Bauman v. Ross · Shoemaker v. United States · Kohl v. United States · Backus v. Fort St Union Depot Co · Long Island Water-Supply Co v. City of Brooklyn
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where there are two statutes upon the same subject, one general and the other special, the special statute is recognized as an exception to the generality of the other statute without regard to priority of enactment.”
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.