Junius Horsburg v. Martin Baker’s Empirical Analysis
26 U.S. 232 · 1828
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions (11 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2016 · most notably Buzard v. Houston (1886), Twist v. Prairie Oil & Gas Co. (1927)
6 federal appellate · 1 district · 11 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.
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““As a court of chancery is not the proper tribunal for enforcing forfeitures, no decree for the purpose of effecting that object, ought to have been made.””
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.