United States v. Bostwick’s Empirical Analysis
94 U.S. 53 · 1876
Citation profile
44 federal appellate · 19 district · 73 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 236 later decisions (23 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2017 · most notably United States v. Winstar Corp. (1996), Keifer v. Reconstruction Finance Corp. (1939)
44 federal appellate · 19 district · 73 state decisions — followed in 25 states
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 Foster v. President of the Essex Bank · Nave v. Berry · Warner v. Hitchins · United States v. Clyde
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 236 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“ * * * The United States, when they contract with their citizens, are controlled by the same laws that govern the citizen in that behalf. All obligations which would be implied against citizens under the same circumstances will be implied against them.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage““ The court of claims shall have jurisdiction to hear and determine the following matters: First, all claims founded upon any law of congress, or upon any regulation of an executive department, or upon any contract, express or implied, with the government of the United States.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““There are in this contract no stipulations to take the place of or in any manner restrict this implied obligation on the part of the United States growing out of their relation to the petitioner as his lessees. They had the free and unrestricted right to use the property for any and all purposes, but were bound to so conduct themselves in such use as not to cause unnecessary injury. Whatever damages would necessarily result from a use for the same purpose by a good tenant must fall upon the lessor. All that the relation of landlord and tenant implies in this particular is, that the tenant, while using the property, will exercise reasonable care to prevent damage to the inheritance. * * * If he fails in this, he violates his contract, and must respond accordingly.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.