Grant v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
74 U.S. 331 · 1868
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions (13 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2010 · most notably Perry v. United States (1935), Brawley v. United States (1877)
12 federal appellate · 11 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.
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The only remaining point in the case relates to the rescission by Secretary Cameron of the order of the 9th of March. This proceeding was undouhtedly taken because the supplies needed in Arizona could be either purchased, there at cheaper rates, or forwarded more securely from St. Louis. Whether the conduct of the Secretary of War was or was not justifiable is not a question to be considered in deciding this suit; for the claimant has not shown a state of case on which he could recover if the rescinding order had never been made. The contract entitled him to furnish, at certain prices, all the supplies that might bo needed in Arizona until the 20th of March, 1862. To enable him to recover for a breach of this contract, ho should have proved that supplies were needed at the posts in Arizona after the rescinding order was made, and the pecuniary loss he sustained in not being allowed to furnish them. This he has wholly failed to do.””
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.