Fletcher v. Peck’s Empirical Analysis
10 U.S. 87 · 1810
Citation profile
169 federal appellate · 73 district · 327 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,037 later decisions (186 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2024 · most notably Baker v. Carr (1962), Village of Arlington Heights v. Metropolitan Housing Development Corp. (1977)
169 federal appellate · 73 district · 327 state decisions — followed in 44 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 Auld v. Norwood
Cited together with Tenney v. Brandhove · Calder et Wife, v. Bull et Wife. · United States v. O'Brien · United States v. Lovett · Flemming v. Nestor
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 1,037 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The question, whether a law be void for its repugnancy to the constitution, is, at all times, a question of much delicacy, which ought seldom, if ever, to be decided in the affirmative in a doubtful case. * * * ””
22 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“any ... Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts ...”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage“How far the power of giving the law may involve every other power, in cases where the constitution is silent, never has been, and perhaps never can be, definitely stated.”
8 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.