Ward Fuller’s Empirical Analysis
173 U.S. 452 · 1899
Citation profile
82 federal appellate · 14 district · 40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 196 later decisions (15 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2022 · most notably Roche v. Evaporated Milk Ass'n (1943), Glidden Company v. Zdanok Lurk (1962)
82 federal appellate · 14 district · 40 state decisions — followed in 13 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 Tennessee v. Union & Planters' Bank · Norton v. Shelby County · Ball v. United States · Metcalf v. City of Watertown
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 196 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * the title of a person acting with color of authority, even if he be not a good officer in point of law, cannot be collaterally attacked * * * ” Id,,, at 456, 19 S.Ct. at 460.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““well settled rule ... that where a court has jurisdiction of an offence, and of the accused, and the proceedings are otherwise regular, a conviction is lawful although the judge holding the court may be only an officer de facto; and that the validity of the title of such judge to the office, or his right to exercise the judicial functions, cannot be determined on a writ of habeas corpus.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ex parte Bird · Baker v. State“his actions as such, so far as they affect third persons, are not open to question.”
1 later decision 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.