United States v. Riddle’s Empirical Analysis
9 U.S. 311 · 1809
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2014
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Rush v. Parker
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A doubt as to the true construction of the law is as reasonable a cause for seizure as a doubt respecting the fact.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the construction of the law was liable to some question,”
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.