Tom Tong’s Empirical Analysis
108 U.S. 556 · 1883
Citation profile
98 federal appellate · 10 district · 104 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 287 later decisions (26 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2021 · most notably Browder v. Director Department of Corrections of Illinois (1978), United State v. Morgan (1954)
98 federal appellate · 10 district · 104 state decisions — followed in 33 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 Ex Parte Bollman and Ex Parte Swartwout
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 287 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[p]roceedings to enforce civil rights are civil proceedings, and proceedings for the punishment of crimes are criminal proceedings”
15 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.