Ex parte Randolph’s Empirical Analysis
1833
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2023
6 federal appellate · 10 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 Cable v. Cooper
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“No questions can be brought before a judicial tribunal of greater delicacy than those which involve the constitutionality of a legislative act. If they become indispensably necessary to the case, the court must meet and decide them; but if the ease may be determined on other points, a just respect for the legislature requires, that the obligation of its laws should not be unnecessarily and wantonly assailed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“cannot act on other persons, or on other subjects, than those marked out in the power [granted by statute], nor can they proceed in a manner different than it prescribes”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“which can neither be supervised by certiorari, or re-examined by writ of error.”
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.