David Muskrat v.’s Empirical Analysis
219 U.S. 346 · 1911
Citation profile
387 federal appellate · 189 district · 181 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,474 later decisions (184 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably Steel Co. v. Citizens for a Better Environment (1998), Association of Data Processing Service Organizations, Inc. v. Camp (1970)
387 federal appellate · 189 district · 181 state decisions — followed in 33 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 William Marbury v. James Madison · Cohens v. Virginia · Connolly v. Union Sewer Pipe Co. · Chicago Ry Co v. Wellman
Cited together with Aetna Life Ins Co of Hartford Conn v. Haworth · Flast v. Cohen · Massachusetts v. Mellon · Baker v. Carr · Nashville St Ry v. Wallace
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 1,474 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the right to determine actual controversies arising between adverse litigants, duly instituted in courts of proper jurisdiction,”
17 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“`The judicial article of the Constitution mentions cases and controversies. The term”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““is the power of a court to decide and pronounce a judgment ánd carry it into effect between persons and parties who bring a case before it for decision. ’ ’ “A case is a suit in law or equity, instituted according to the regular- course of judicial proceedings. ’ ’”
7 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.