Chirac v. Chirac’s Empirical Analysis
15 U.S. 259 · 1817
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 10 district · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 81 later decisions (28 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2021 · most notably Terrace v. Thompson (1923), Torao Takahashi v. Fish and Game Commission (1948)
4 federal appellate · 10 district · 17 state decisions
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.
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 81 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“That the power of naturalization is exclusively in congress does not seem to be, and certainly ought not to be, controverted.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Whenever any French subject shall, by virtue of the act [which permitted French subjects to inherit real estate in the state] become seised in fee of real estate, his or her estate, after the term of ten years be expired, shall vest in the state, unless the person seised of the same, shall, within that time, either come or settle in and become a citizen of this state, or enfeoff thereof some citizen of this or some other of the United States of America.””
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.