Exparte Langdon’s Empirical Analysis
1853
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently February 1973
12 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 Yates v. Lansing
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“But this proceeding, in terms is an adjudication of the relator being guilty of the contempt, and that process issue for his arrest and commitment, or punishment. If the party is out of the jurisdiction, process may be left at his usual abode, or with his solicitor. But here, nothing of the kind is attempted.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“But this is a distinct, and independent matter, as much as a new suit, and obviously requires a distinct notice, as much as a new suit.”
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.