United States v. Preece’s Empirical Analysis
85 F.2d 952 · 1936
Citation profile
9 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently April 1957
9 federal appellate ·
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
Applies 38 U.S.C. § 717
Relies on Finn v. United States · Illinois Cent Co v. Public Utilities Commission of Illinois Public Utilities Commission of Illinois · Reid v. United States · Price v. United States & Osage Indians · Grigg v. United States
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * Any person in the active service on or after the sixth day of April, nineteen hundred and . seventeen, who, while in such service and before the expiration of one hundred and twenty days from and after such publication, becomes or has become totally and permanently disabled or dies, or has died, without having applied for insurance, shall be deemed to have applied for and to have been granted insurance, payable to such person during his life, in monthly installments of $25 each.””
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.