Utter v. Franklin’s Empirical Analysis
172 U.S. 416 · 1899
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 62 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 114 later decisions (16 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 1993 · most notably United States v. Conrad Heinszen C (1907), Charles Simms v. Hannah T Simms (1899)
13 federal appellate · 62 state decisions — followed in 16 states
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Relationships
Relies on The American Insurance Company v. 356 Bales of Cotton David Canter · National Bank v. County of Yankton · Board of Sup'rs of Grenada Co v. Brown · New Orleans v. Clark · Anderson v. Township of Santa Anna in De Witt Illinois
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 114 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he fact that this court had held the original Pima county bonds invalid does not affect the question. They were invalid because there was no power to issue them. They were made valid by such power being subsequently given, and it makes no possible difference that they had been declared to be void under the power originally given. The judgment in that case was res judicata only of the issues then presented, of the facts as they then appeared, and of the legislation then existing.”
7 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.