Claasen’s Empirical Analysis
140 U.S. 200 · 1891
Citation profile
93 federal appellate · 25 district · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 204 later decisions (37 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2002 · most notably United States v. Cotton (2002), Tumey v. State of Ohio (1927)
93 federal appellate · 25 district · 29 state decisions — followed in 13 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Wilson · Medley · Mackin v. United States · In re Mills
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 204 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““As there is no security required in a criminal case, the supersedeas may be obtained by merely serving the writ within the time prescribed, without giving any security, provided the justice who signs the citation directs that the writ shall operate as a supersedeas, which he may do when no security is required or taken.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“cases of conviction of a capital or otherwise infamous crime;”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““In any case where a writ of error may be a supersedeas, the defendant may obtain such supersedeas by serving the writ of error by lodging a copy thereof for the adverse party in the clerk’s office where the record remains, within sixty days, Sundays exclusive, after the rendering of the judgment complained of, and giving the security required by law [where any is so required] on the ( issuing of the citation. “But if he [citation having issued without security having been given, where security is required by law] desires to stay process on the judgment, he may, having served his writ of error as aforesaid [by lodging a copy thereof in the clerk’s office where the record remains, within sixty days, Sundays exclusive, after the rendering of the judgment complained of] give the security required by law within sixty days after the rendition of such judgment [as a matter of right], or afterwards with the permission of a justice or judge of the appellate court. “And in such eases where a writ of error may be a supersedeas, executions shall not issue until the expiration of ten days.””
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.