Durousseau v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
10 U.S. 307 · 1810
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 7 district · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 82 later decisions (21 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2021 · most notably Felker v. Turpin (1996), The Paquete Habana (1900)
14 federal appellate · 7 district · 22 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 Ex Parte Bollman and Ex Parte Swartwout · De Butts v. Bacon · Alexander v. The Baltimore Insurance Company · Clarke v. Bazadone
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 82 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'Had the judicial act created the Supreme Court, without defining or limiting its jurisdiction, it must have been considered as possessing all the jurisdiction which the Constitution assigned to it. . . . And in omitting to exercise the right of excepting from its constitutional powers, would have necessarily-left those powers undiminished. The appellate powers of this court are not given by the judicial act; they are given by the Constitution. But they are limited and regulated by the judicial act.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“negative on the exercise of such appellate, power as is not comprehended within it.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]n all the other Cases . . . the supreme Court shall have appellate Jurisdiction, both as to Law and Fact, with such Exceptions, and under such Regulations as the Congress shall make.”
2 later decisions 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.