M'Creery's v. Somerville’s Empirical Analysis
22 U.S. 354 · 1824
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1961
5 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 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 Orr v. Hodgson
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“native-born citizens of the United States and without such assumption the case would not have presented the question decided by the court, which, as stated by Mr., Justice Story in delivering the opinion, was “ whether the statute applies to the case of a living alien ancestor, so as to create a title by heirship, where none would exist by the common law, if the ancestor were a natural-born subject.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“from any of their ancestors, lineal or collateral, although the father and mother, or father or mother, or other ancestor, of such person or persons, by, from, through or under whom”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“An act to enable His Majesty’s natural-born subjects to inherit the estate of their ancestors, either lineal or collateral, notwithstanding their father or mother were aliens,”
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.