Marye v. Parsons’s Empirical Analysis
114 U.S. 325 · 1884
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 6 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 91 later decisions (24 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2021 · most notably Steel Co. v. Citizens for a Better Environment (1998), Massachusetts v. Mellon (1923)
7 federal appellate · 6 district · 10 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 Osborn v. President Directors and Company of the Bank of the United States · Trustees of Dartmouth College v. Woodward · Davis v. Gray · Board of Liquidation v. McComb · Texas v. White
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 91 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““But then it will be asked, has the citizen no redress against the unconstitutional acts or laws of a- state? Certainly he has. There is no difficulty on the subject. Whenever his life, liberty, or property is threatened, assailed, or invaded by unconstitutional acts, or by any attempt to execute unconstitutional laws, he may defend himself by any proper way by habeas corpus, by defense to prosecutions, by actions brought on his behalf, by injunction, by mandamus. Any one of these methods of redress suitable to his case is open to him. A citizen cannot in any way be harassed, injured, or destroyed by unconstitutional laws, without having some legal means of resistance or redress. But this is where the state or its officers move against him. 'The right to all these means of protection and redress against unconstitutional oppression and exaction is a very different thing from the right to coerce a state into a fulfillment of its contracts. The one is an indefeasible right, a right which cannot be taken away. The other is never a right, but may, or may not, be conceded by the state, and, if conceded, may be conceded on such terms as the state chooses to impose.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Parsons v. Slaughter““But, then, it will he ashed, has a citizen no redress against the unconstitutional acts or laws of the state? Certainly he has. There is no difficulty on the subject. Whenever his life, liberty, or property is threatened, assailed, or invaded by unconstitutional acts, or by an attempt to execute unconstitutional laws, he may defend himself in every proper way, by habeas corpus, by defense to prosecutions, by actions brought on Ms own behalf, by injunction or mandamus. Any one of these modes of redress, suitable to bis case, is open to him. A citizen cannot in any . way be harassed, injured, or destroyed by unconstitutional laws without having some legal means of resistance or redress. But this is where the state or its officers moves against him. The right to all these means of protection and redress against unconstitutional oppression and exaction is a very different thing from the right to coerce the state into a fuliilhnent of its contracts.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.