Marshall v. Beeler’s Empirical Analysis
1919
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently June 1998
2 federal appellate · 17 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 Baum v. Thoms · Mason v. McLeod · Wood v. Lake · Jenness v. Cutler · Wheaton v. Hibbard
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“No payment obtained through oppression or undue advantage is voluntary, and the law presumes every payment made to a person who is by statute forbidden to receive it, where the statute is for the protection of the payer, as made through oppression and undue advantage.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Jews might be allowed to take interest since they were to be damned in any case, and by giving them a monopoly of the business the souls of Christians might not be lost.”
1 later decision 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.