Respublica v. Oswald’s Empirical Analysis
1 U.S. 319 · 1788
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2020 · most notably Curtis Publishing Co. v. Butts (1967), Near v. State of Minnesota Olson (1931)
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 12 state decisions — followed in 10 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 Kilbourn v. Thompson · Anderson v. Dunn · Bayard v. Passmore
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . Some doubts were suggested, whether even a contempt of the court was punishable by attachment; but not only my brethren and myself, but likewise all the Judges of England, think, that without this power - no court could possibly exist; — nay, that no contempt could indeed, be committed against us, we should be so truly contemptible. The law upon the subject is of immemorial antiquity; and there is not any period when it can be said to have ceased, or discontinued . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Potter v. Wilson
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.