Mater v. Holley’s Empirical Analysis
200 F.2d 123 · 1952
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 9 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2022 · most notably Romero v. International Terminal Operating Co. (1959), Illinois v. City of Milwaukee (1972)
27 federal appellate · 9 district · 6 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
Applies 16 U.S.C. § 457 · 28 U.S.C. § 1331
Relies on The American Insurance Company v. 356 Bales of Cotton David Canter · Surplus Trading Co. v. Cook · Stewart v. Sadrakula · Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co. v. McGlinn · Murray v. Joe Gerrick & Co.
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]ny law existing in territory over which the United States has exclusive sovereignty must derive its authority and force from the United States and is for that reason federal law.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“all Places purchased by the consent of the legislature of the State in which the same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Exclusive `legislation' has been construed to mean exclusive `jurisdiction' in the sense of exclusive sovereignty.”
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.