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103 U.S. 62 · 1880

Citation profile

219
cited by 219 later decisions
20
cited 20 times by the Supreme Court
28
states following
October 2022
most recently cited

41 federal appellate · 15 district · 75 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 219 later decisions (20 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2022 · most notably Parker v. Ellis (1960), Harris v. Commissioner (1950)

41 federal appellate · 15 district · 75 state decisions — followed in 28 states

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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 Gray v. Brignardello · Perry v. Wilson · The President Directors and Company of the Bank of the United States v. David Weisiger · Blaisdell v. Harris

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 219 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[W]here the delay in rendering a judgment or a decree arises from the act of the court ... it is the duty of the court to see that the parties shall not suffer by the delay.”
    9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Padgett v. Shinseki · Pekular v. Mansfield
  2. “In such cases, . . . it is the duty of the court to see that the parties shall not suffer by the delay. A nunc pro tunc order should be granted or refused, as justice may require in view of the circumstances of the particular case.”
    8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Nenezich v. Elich · Ward v. Lupinacci
  3. “` the decree herein to be rendered as of the term of said trial and submission.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Andrew v. Winegarden

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.