United States v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis
2 U.S. 348 · 1795
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently July 1971
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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.
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The first question to be considered is: What was the general object of the insurrection? If its object was to suppress the excise offices, and 1:o prevent the execution of an act of Congress, by force and intimidation, the offense, in legal estimation, is high treason; it is an usurpation of the authority of government; it is high treason, by levying of war.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.