United States v. Farden’s Empirical Analysis
99 U.S. 10 · 1878
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1993 · most notably Massachusetts v. Mellon (1923), Runkle v. United States (1887)
13 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 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
Relies on De La Fayette Wilcox v. John Jackson
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Under the Tenure-of-Offiee Act the President had the power at that time, which was during the recess of the Senate, to suspend the collector until the next session of the Senate, and the act of the Secretary, the head of the Treasury Department” (in effect suspending the collector) “is presumed to be the act of the President. Wilcox v. Jackson, 13 Pet. 498 [ 10 L.Ed. 264 ].””
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.