Clyatt v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
197 U.S. 207 · 1905
Citation profile
278 federal appellate · 26 district · 68 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 568 later decisions (82 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2023 · most notably Jackson v. Virginia (1979), Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. (1970)
278 federal appellate · 26 district · 68 state decisions — followed in 23 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Gibbons v. Ogden · United States v. Cruikshank · Plessy v. Ferguson · Civil Rights Cases · Slaughter-House Cases the Butchers' Benevolent Association of New Orleans v. The Crescent City Live
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 568 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a status or condition of compulsory service, based upon the indebtedness of the person to the master. The basal fact is indebtedness.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the imperative duty of a court to see that all the elements of (the accused's) crime are proved, or at least that testimony is offered which justifies a ... finding (on) those elements.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Sec. 269. Whoever holds, arrests, returns, or causes to be held, arrested, or returned, or in any manner aids in the arrest or return of any person to a condition of peonage, shall be fined not more than five thousand dollars, or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.” “Sec. 37. If two or more persons conspire either to commit any offense against the United States, or to defraud the United States in any manner or for any purpose, and one or more of such parties do any act to effect the object of the conspiracy, each of the parties to such conspiracy shall be fined not more than ten thousand dollars, or imprisoned not more than two years, or both.””
4 later decisions 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.