Avery v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
79 U.S. 304 · 1870
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 5 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 1994 · most notably United States v. Mayer (1914), Federal Savings & Loan Insurance v. Quinn (1969)
9 federal appellate · 5 district · 5 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“would lead to endless embarrassments in the administration of justice”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wintle v. Wright
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.