United States v. Ayres’s Empirical Analysis
76 U.S. 608 · 1869
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably Jenkins v. United Gas Corp. (1968), St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railroad v. Southern Express Co. (1883)
11 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 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 United States v. Grossmayer
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Sec. 1088. The Court of Claims, at any time while any claim is pending before it, or on appeal from it,, or within two years next after the final disposition of such claim, may, on motion on behalf of the United States, grant a new trial and stay'the payment of any judgment therein, upon.,such evidence, cumulative or otherwise, as shall satisfy the court that any fraud, wrong, or injustice in the premises has been done to the United States ; but until an order is made staying the payment of a judgment, the' same shall be payable and paid as now provided by law.”
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.