New Jersey v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis
11 U.S. 164 · 1812
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 132 later decisions (38 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2011 · most notably United States Trust Company of New York v. New Jersey (1977), Trustees of Dartmouth College v. Woodward (1819)
1 federal appellate · 48 state decisions — followed in 22 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 Welch v. Mandeville
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 132 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““That the lands to be purchased for the Indians aforesaid shall not hereafter be subject to any tax, any law, usage, or custom to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[e]very requisite to the formation of a contract is found in the proceedings between the then colony of New Jersey and the Indians,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““It is not doubted but that the state of New Jersey might have insisted on a surrender of this privilege as a sole condition on which a sale of the property should be allowed. But this condition has not been insisted on.””
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.