Union Insurance Company v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
73 U.S. 759 · 1867
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 2 district · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2011 · most notably United States v. Goldenberg (1897), People v. One 1941 Chevrolet Coupe (1951)
30 federal appellate · 2 district · 15 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 Reichart v. Felps
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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“But when we look beyond the mere words to the obvious intent we cannot help seeing that the word `or' must be taken conjunctively. * * *”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“in general conformity to the course in Admiralty.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the Attorney- General or any district attorney of the United States [in the district] in which -said property may at the time be.”
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.