Snow v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
85 U.S. 317 · 1873
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 7 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions (10 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2020 · most notably Chas Steward Mach Co v. Davis (1937), O'Donoghue v. United States (1933)
8 federal appellate · 7 district · 7 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 The Star of Hope
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Strictly speaking, there is no sovereignty in a ’territory of' the United States but that of the United States itself. Crimes •committed therein are committed against the government and dignity of the United States. It would seem that the indictments and writs should regularly he in the name of the United States, and that the attorney of the United States was the proper officer to prosecute all offenses. But the practice has been otherwise, not o,nly in Utah, but in other territories organized upon the same type.””
5 later decisions 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.