Lancaster’s Empirical Analysis
137 U.S. 393 · 1890
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 6 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 1945 · most notably Pierce v. Creecy (1908), 19 Cal. 2d 488 - In Re Bell (1942)
13 federal appellate · 6 district · 7 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 Royall · Ex parte Virginia · Kemmler · Wales v. Whitney · Handley v. Stutz
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where persons indicted in the circuit court, and in custody, have not invoked the action of the circuit court by a motion to quash the indictment or otherwise, the court will deny leave to file here a, petition for writ of habeas corpus, asked upon the ground that the matters charged do not constitute any offense under the laws of the United States or cognizable in the circuit court, and that for other reasons the indictment cannot he sustained.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In re Hacker
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.