Clyde v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
80 U.S. 38 · 1871
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions (9 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2003
9 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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. Clyde
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Instead of being a rule of practice, it was really an additional restriction of tbe exercise of jurisdiction by that court. It required' tbe claimant to do wbat tbe act giving tbe courts jurisdiction did not require bim to do, before it would assume jurisdiction of bis case.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“that, where the case was such as is ordinarily settled in an' executive department, the petition should show that application for its allowance had ' been.made to that department, and without success, and the decision thereon;”
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.