Abbott v. Morgenthau’s Empirical Analysis
93 F.2d 242 · 1937
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently February 1978
10 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
Applies 24 U.S.C. § 136 · 24 U.S.C. § 138
Relies on Frisbie v. United States · United States v. Magnolia Petroleum Co. · Pennie v. Reis · United States Burnett v. Teller · United States v. Hall
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“no vested legal right to a pension at all, for, as has been said time and time again, pensions are bounties which Congress has the right to give, to withhold, to distribute, or to recall, at its discretion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“'The balance due the pensioner at the date of his death shall be disposed of as directed by Act of Congress approved July 1, 1902'.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.