Hauenstein v. Lynham’s Empirical Analysis
100 U.S. 483 · 1879
Citation profile
59 federal appellate · 19 district · 106 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 323 later decisions (75 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2015 · most notably Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson (1932), Hines v. Davidowitz (1941)
59 federal appellate · 19 district · 106 state decisions — followed in 32 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 Cherokee Tobacco · Ware v. Hylton · Fairfax's Devisee v. Hunter's Lessee · Chirac v. Chirac
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 323 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It must always be borne in mind that the Constitution, laws, and treaties of the United States are as much a part of the law of every State as its own local laws and Constitution.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““And all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the; land, and the judges in every state shall bo bound thereby, anything in the constitution or laws of any state to the contrary notwithstanding.””
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Where a treaty admits of two constructions, one restrictive as to the rights that may be claimed under it, and the other liberal, the latter is to be preferred.” (Havenstein v. Lynham, 100 U. S. 483 , 25 L. Ed. 628 .)”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.