Heath’s Empirical Analysis
144 U.S. 92 · 1892
Citation profile
46 federal appellate · 6 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 123 later decisions (26 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2003 · most notably Panama Co v. Johnson (1924), Carroll v. United States (1957)
46 federal appellate · 6 district · 24 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 Kendall v. United States ex rel. Stokes · Wales v. Whitney · McIntire v. Wood · M'Clung v. Silliman
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 123 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It was not an uncommon course of legislation in the states, at an early day, to adopt, by reference, British statutes; and this has been the course of legislation by congress in many instances where state practice'and state process has been adopted. And such adoption has always been considered as referring to the law existing at the time of adoption; and no subsequent legislation has ever been supposed to affect it. And such must necessarily be the effect and operation of such adoption; no other rule would furnish any certainty as to what was the law; and would be adopting prospectively, all changes that might be made in the law. And this has been the light in which this court has viewed such legislation.” (Italics supplied.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the appellate jurisdiction of this court in habeas corpus cases from decisions of the Circuit Courts, and that this necessarily included juris diction over similar judgments of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Any final judgment or decree of the said Court of Appeals may be reexamined and affirmed, reversed or modified, by the Supreme Court of the United States, upon writ of error or appeal, in all- cases in which the matter in dispute, exclusive of costs, shall exceed the sum of five thousand dollars, in the same manner and under the same regulation as heretofore provided for in cases of writs of error on judgments or appeals from decrees rendered in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia; and also in cases, without regard to the sum or value of the matter in dispute, wherein is involved the validity of any patent or copyright, or in which is drawn in question the validity of a treaty or statute of, or an authority exercised under, the United States.”
1 later decision 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.