Gordon v. United States’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 federal appellate · 3 state decisions

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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The various acts and resolutions of Congress in this case emanated from a desire to do justice and to obtain the proper information as a basis of action, and were not intended to be. submissions to the arbitrament of the accounting officer. They were designed as instructions to the officer by which to adjust the accounts, Congress reserving to itself the power to approve, reject, or rescind, or to otherwise act in the premises as the exigencies- of the case might require. In other words,- these references only.require the officer to act in a -ministerial, not a judicial, capacity.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Nutt v. United States

2. ““A private extraordinary judge chosen by the parties who have a matter in dispute, invested with authority to decide the same.” Gordon v. U. S., 7 Wall. 188 , 194, 19 L. Ed. 35 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Toledo S. S. Co. v. Zenith Transp. Co.