United States v. Harris’s Empirical Analysis
106 U.S. 629 · 1882
Citation profile
196 federal appellate · 70 district · 59 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 560 later decisions (98 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2022 · most notably Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. (1970), Monroe v. Pape (1961)
196 federal appellate · 70 district · 59 state decisions — followed in 20 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 M'Culloch v. State of Maryland · Gibbons v. Ogden · United States v. Cruikshank · Slaughter-House Cases the Butchers' Benevolent Association of New Orleans v. The Crescent City Live · Paul v. Virginia
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 560 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.””
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The duty of protecting all its citizens in the enjoyment of an equality of rights was originally assumed by the States and it remains there.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“depriv[e] ... any person or class of persons of the equal protection of the laws.”
4 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.