United States v. Ortega’s Empirical Analysis
24 U.S. 467 · 1826
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 1 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2002 · most notably Ames v. State of Kansas Johnston Kansas Pac Ry Co (1884), Börs v. Preston (1884)
7 federal appellate · 1 district · 9 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 Commonwealth v. Kosloff
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the Supreme Court shall have appellate jurisdiction, both as to law and fact, with such exceptions and under such regulations as the Congress shall make.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Börs v. Preston“jurisdiction, exclusively of the courts of the several States, of all suits against consuls or vice-consuls,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Börs v. Preston“acting under the authority of the United States”
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.