Austin v. . Searing’s Empirical Analysis
1857
Citation profile
43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently May 1959 · most notably Bauer v. Samson Lodge (1885), Supreme Council of the Order of Chosen Friends v. Forsinger (1890)
43 state decisions — followed in 14 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.
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is only as contracts that these constitutions are in the least obligatory.”
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.