McElvaine v. Brush’s Empirical Analysis
142 U.S. 155 · 1891
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 101 later decisions (17 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1993 · most notably Furman v. Georgia (1972), Malloy v. Hogan (1964)
28 federal appellate · 23 state decisions — followed in 10 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 Kemmler · Medley · Wood v. Brush · Holden v. State of Minnesota
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 101 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“was in itself within the legitimate sphere of the legislative power of the State, and in the observance of those general rules prescribed by our systems of jurisprudence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Glass v. Louisiana
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.