Martin Fairfax v. Hunter's’s Empirical Analysis
14 U.S. 304 · 1816
Citation profile
163 federal appellate · 49 district · 176 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 839 later decisions (191 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2026 · most notably Preiser v. Rodriguez (1973), Stone v. Powell (1976)
163 federal appellate · 49 district · 176 state decisions — followed in 37 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 Smith v. The State of Maryland at the Instance and for the Use of Carroll and Maccubbin
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 839 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land;”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In re Neagle · Testa v. Katt““The government, then, of the United States, can claim no .powers which are not granted to it by the Constitution, and the powers actually granted, must be such as are expressly given, or given by necessary implication. On the other hand, this instrument, like every other grant, is to have a reasonable construction, according to the import of its terms; and where a power is expressly given in general terms, it is not to be restrained to particular cases, unless that construction grow out of the context, expressly or by necessary implication. The words are to be taken in their natural and obvious sense, and not in a sense unreasonably restricted or enlarged.” Martin v. Hunter, 1 Wheat. 326 , 4 L. Ed. 97 .”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“If, then, it is a duty of congress to vest the judicial power of the United States, it is a duty to vest the whole judicial power. The language, if imperative as to one part, is imperative as to all. If it were otherwise, this anomaly would exist, that congress might successively refuse to vest the jurisdiction in any one class of cases enumerated in the constitution, and thereby defeat the jurisdiction as to all; for the constitution has not singled out any class on which congress are bound to act in preference to others.”
5 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.