Bergemann v. Backer’s Empirical Analysis
157 U.S. 655 · 1895
Citation profile
37 federal appellate · 10 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 124 later decisions (22 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2022 · most notably Fay v. Noia (1963), Stone v. Powell (1976)
37 federal appellate · 10 district · 14 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.
Relationships
Relies on Andrews v. Swartz · Caldwell v. State of Texas · New York v. Eno · Davis v. People of Territory of Utah
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 124 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When a state court has jurisdiction of the offense and the accused, under an indictment found under statutes of the state not void under the constitution of the United States, and proceeds to judgment under such statutes, a circuit court of the United States has no authority to interfere with the execution of the sentence by means of a writ of habeas corpus.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In re Lawrence“add any case to nor take any case from the class of crimes which, at common law, was denominated `murder,' for every act that was murder at common law was still murder in New Jersey.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hartman v. Lee“did willfully, feloniously, and of his malice aforethought kill and murder”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hartman v. Lee
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.