Smith v. McIver’s Empirical Analysis
22 U.S. 532 · 1824
Citation profile
57 federal appellate · 9 district · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 153 later decisions — most recently June 2026 · most notably Wiswall v. Sampson (1852), Tecon Engineers, Inc. v. United States (1965)
57 federal appellate · 9 district · 23 state decisions — followed in 16 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 Burr · Polk's Lessee v. Wendal · Lessee v. Wendell · Burton's v. Williams
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 153 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]n all cases of concurrent jurisdiction, the court which first has possession of the subject must decide it.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““We think the cause must be decided by the tribunal which first obtains possession of it, and that each court must respect the judgment or decree of the other.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In re Lasserot
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.