McIntire v. Wood’s Empirical Analysis
11 U.S. 504 · 1813
Citation profile
76 federal appellate · 7 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 183 later decisions (40 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2006 · most notably Chambers v. Nasco, Inc. (1991), United States v. New York Telephone Co. (1977)
76 federal appellate · 7 district · 1 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 Preston v. Tremble
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 183 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The judicial power shall extend to all cases in law and equity arising under this Constitution, the laws of the United Slates, and treaties made, or which shall be made, under their authority, to all cases affecting ambassadors, other public ministers, and consuls, to all cases of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction; to controversies to which the United States shall be a party; to controversies between two or more states; between a state and citizens of another state; between citizens of different states; between citizens of the same state claiming lands under grants of different, states, and between a state, or the citizens thereof, and foreign states, citizens, or subjects.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Independent of the particular objections which this case presents from its involving a question of freehold, we are of opinion that the power of the Circuit Courts to issue the writ of mandamus, is confined exclusively to those cases in which it may be necessary to the exercise of their jurisdiction.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Burnham v. Fields“all the . . . courts of the United States, shall have power to issue writs of scire facias, habeas corpus, and all other writs not specifically provided for by statute, which may be necessary for the exercise of their respective jurisdictions, and agreeable to the principles and usages of law.”
1 later decision 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.