Shelby’s Empirical Analysis
24 U.S. 361 · 1826
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 3 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 101 later decisions (14 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1987 · most notably Agency Holding Corporation v. Malley-Duff & Associates Inc Crown Life Insurance Company (1987), Baltimore Co v. Baugh (1893)
15 federal appellate · 3 district · 24 state decisions — followed in 14 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 Murray's v. Baker
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 101 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Nor is it questionable that a fixed and received construction of tbeir respective statute laws in tbeir own courts makes, in fact, a part of the statute law of the country, however we may doubt the propriety of that construction.””
2 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.