Ware v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
71 U.S. 617 · 1866
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 1986
4 federal appellate · 3 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
Relies on Rutherford v. Geddes · United States v. Giles
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Undoubtedly, Congress might discontinue a post office which they had pre: viously established by law, and it is difficult to see why the Postmaster General may not do the same thing when acting under an act of Congress, expressed in the very words of the Constitution from which Congress derives its power.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Power to establish post offices and post roads is conferred upon Congress, but the policy of the government from the time the general post office was established has been to delegate the' power to designate the places where the mail shall be received and delivered to the Postmaster General.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“it was lawful for the [Postal Service] to exercise it, notwithstanding the postmaster had been appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate.”
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.