United States v. Hudson’s Empirical Analysis
11 U.S. 32 · 1812
Citation profile
250 federal appellate · 64 district · 75 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 804 later decisions (123 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2026 · most notably In the Matter of Samuel Winship (1970), Parratt v. Taylor (1981)
250 federal appellate · 64 district · 75 state decisions — followed in 28 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 De Butts v. Bacon
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 804 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“necessary to the exercise of all others.”
68 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.