Murphy v. Ramsey’s Empirical Analysis
114 U.S. 15 · 1885
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 27 district · 46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 189 later decisions (36 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2024 · most notably Caminetti v. United States (1917), Trop v. Dulles (1958)
28 federal appellate · 27 district · 46 state decisions — followed in 16 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 The American Insurance Company v. 356 Bales of Cotton David Canter · Sturgis v. Honold · National Bank v. County of Yankton · United States v. Gratiot
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 189 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[N]o legislation can be supposed more wholesome and necessary in the founding of a free, self-governing commonwealth, fit to take rank as one of the coordinate states of the Union, than that which seeks to establish it on the basis of the idea of family, as consisting in and springing from the union for life of one man and one woman in the holy estate of matrimony; the sure foundation of all that is stable and noble in our civilization; the best guaranty of that reverent morality which is the source of all beneficent progress in social and political improvement.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““That, except as hereinafter provided, all military, civil and judicial powers necessary to govern the West Indian Islands acquired from Denmark shall be vested in a Governor and in such person or persons as the President may appoint, and shall be exercised in such manner as the President shall direct until Congress shall provide for the Government of said Islands: Provided, That the President may assign an officer of the Army or Navy to serve as such Governor and perform the duties appertaining to said office ; And provided further, That the Governor of the said Islands shall be appointed by and with the advice and consent of the Senate; And provided further, That the compensation of all persons appointed under this Act shall be fixed by the President.” ■”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Francis““ Sec. 6. That the President is hereby authorized to grant amnesty to such classes of offenders guilty of bigamy, polygamy, or unlawful cohabitation, before the passage of this Act, on such conditions and under such limitations as he shall think proper; but no such amnesty shall have effect unless the conditions thereof shall.be complied with.”
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.