M'Clung v. Silliman’s Empirical Analysis
19 U.S. 598 · 1821
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 8 district · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 138 later decisions (35 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2025 · most notably Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. (1984), United State v. Morgan (1954)
33 federal appellate · 8 district · 15 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 McIntire v. Wood · M'Cluny v. Silliman
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 138 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The fourteenth section of the act under consideration could only have been intended to vest the power now contended for in cases where the jurisdiction already exists, and not where it is to be courted or acquired, by means of the writ proposed to be sued out.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The question before an appellate Court is, was the judgment correct, not the ground on which the judgment professes to proceed.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“not specifically provided for by statute”
2 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.