State v. Ambs’s Empirical Analysis
1854
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1963 · most notably McGowan v. State of Maryland Gallagher (1961), Hennington v. Georgia (1896)
28 state decisions — followed in 12 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.
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““With what sorrow would the toil-worn laborer receive the intelligence that there was no longer, by law, a day of rest from his labor! The poor beasts of burden would soon find by experience, that our laws were no longer tempered by the softening influences of Christianity, and all the social advantages, which great and good men have attributed to the observance of Sunday as a day of rest, would be taken away.” (Page 217.)”
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.