United States v. Hall’s Empirical Analysis
98 U.S. 343 · 1878
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 13 district · 65 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 126 later decisions (18 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2011 · most notably Walters v. National Assn. of Radiation Survivors (1985), United States v. Oregon (1961)
14 federal appellate · 13 district · 65 state decisions — followed in 23 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. Hudson · United States v. Fox · United States v. Coolidge · Fogg v. Perkins
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 126 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Power to grant pensions is not controverted, nor can it well be, as it was exercised by the States and by the Continental Congress during the war of the Revolution; and the exercise of the power is coeval with the organization of the government under the present Constitution, and has been continued without interruption or question to the present time.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bedford v. White“Power existed in the States before the Constitution was adopted, and it would serve to undermine the public regard for our great charter if it could be held that it did not continue the same power in the Congress.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bedford v. White“Regular allowances paid to an individual by government in consideration of service rendered, or in recognition of merit, civil or military, are called pensions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bedford v. White
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.