M'Iver v. Ragan’s Empirical Analysis
15 U.S. 25 · 1817
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 2 district · 35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 85 later decisions (8 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2005 · most notably Fernandi v. Strully (1961), Peak v. United States (1957)
23 federal appellate · 2 district · 35 state decisions — followed in 18 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 Patton's v. Easton
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 85 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Whenever the situation of a party was such as, in the opinion of the Legislature, to furnish a motive for excepting him from the operation of the law, the Legislature has made the exception. It would be going far for this court to add to those exceptions.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““ ‘If this difficulty be produced by the legislative power, the same power might provide a remedy, but courts cannot, on that account, insert in the statute of limitations an exception which the statute does not contain.’” (44 N. J. L., at p. 513.)”
2 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.