Knote v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
95 U.S. 149 · 1877
Citation profile
34 federal appellate · 10 district · 41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 160 later decisions (13 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2024 · most notably Office of Personnel Management v. Richmond (1990), Brown v. Walker (1896)
34 federal appellate · 10 district · 41 state decisions — followed in 16 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 United States v. Cruikshank · Slaughter-House Cases the Butchers' Benevolent Association of New Orleans v. The Crescent City Live · Ex parte Garland · United States v. Klein · Ex Parte: in the Matter of William Wells on a Petition for a Writ of Habeas Corpus
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 160 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[h]owever large ... may be the power of pardon possessed by the President,”
18 later decisions quote this exact passage“vested in others directly by the execution of the judgment for the offence, or which have been acquired by others whilst that judgment was in force.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Moneys once in the Treasury can only be withdrawn by an appropriation by law.”
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.