Bock v. Perkins’s Empirical Analysis
139 U.S. 628 · 1891
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 16 district · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 180 later decisions (37 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2013 · most notably Wheeldin v. Wheeler (1963), Tennessee v. Union & Planters' Bank (1894)
33 federal appellate · 16 district · 27 state decisions — followed in 11 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 Tennessee v. Davis · Buck v. Colbath · Railroad Company v. Mississippi · Feibelman v. Packard
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 180 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A case, therefore, depending upon tbe inquiry whether a marshal or his deputy has rightfully executed a lawful precept directed to the former from a court of the United States, is one arising under the laws of the United States; for, as this court has said, ‘cases arising under the laws of the United States are such as grow out of the legislation of Congress, whether they constitute the right or privilege, or claim or protection, or defense of the party, in whole or in part, by whom they are asserted’ — citing Tenn. v. Davis, 100 U. S. 257 , 25 L. Ed. 648 ; Railroad Co. v. Miss., 102 U. S. 135 , 26 L. Ed. 96 .’’”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.