In the Matter of the Application of Albert Heff for a Writ of Habeas Corpus’s Empirical Analysis
1905
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 14 district · 40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 87 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2023 · most notably Choate v. Trapp (1912), Burnet v. Coronado Oil & Gas Co. (1932)
5 federal appellate · 14 district · 40 state decisions — followed in 15 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 Slaughter-House Cases the Butchers' Benevolent Association of New Orleans v. The Crescent City Live · Samuel Worcester v. The State of Georgia · Lone Wolf v. Ethan a Hitchcock · State of Minnesota v. Ethan Allen Hitchcock · Samuel Thurlow v. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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 87 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In this Republic there is a dual system of government—national and state. Each within its own domain is supreme, and cr,e «>r the chief functions of this court is to preserve the balance between them, protecting each in the powers it possesses and preventing any trespass thereon by the other. The general police power is reserved to the states, subject, however, to the limitation that in its exercise the state may not trespass upon the rights and powers vested in the general government. The regulation of the sale of intoxicating liquors is one of the most common and significant exercises of the police power. And, so far as it is an exercise of,the police power, it is within the domain of state jurisdiction.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The 'fact that property .is held subject to a condition against alienation does not affect the civil or political status of the holder of the title. Many a tract of land-- is conveyed with a condition subsequent. A minor may not alienate his lands; and a proper tribunal may, at the instance of the rightful party, enforce all restraints upon alienation.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““It [the United States] may at any time abandon its guardianship and leave the ward to' assume and be subject to ail the privileges and burdens of one sui juris. ' And it is for Congress to determine when and how that relationship of guardianship shall be abandoned. It is not within the power of the courts to' overrule the judgment of Congress.””
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.