Bulkley v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
86 U.S. 37 · 1873
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions (8 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 1978 · most notably United States v. Behan (1884), Howard v. Stillwell Bierce Manuf'G Co (1891)
6 federal appellate · 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.
Relationships
Relies on The Rio Grande
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in making ready to meet the requirements of the notice, he was subjected to the loss of time, to trouble and expense. Hfe is entitled to be paid accordingly.”
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.