Basset v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
76 U.S. 38 · 1869
Citation profile
43 federal appellate · 4 district · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 91 later decisions (21 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 1991 · most notably Browder v. Director Department of Corrections of Illinois (1978), Ponzi v. Fessenden (1922)
43 federal appellate · 4 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.
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 91 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When a court sits in place of a jury and finds the facts this court cannot review that finding. If there is any error in such case, shown by the record, in admitting or rejecting testimony, it can be reviewed here. But when the court, by permission of tbe parties, tabes tbe place cf tbe jury, its finding of facts is conclusive, precisely as if a jury bad found them by verdict.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“this control .of the court over its own judgment, during the term, is of every-day practice.”
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.