Jackman v. Rosenbaum Co.’s Empirical Analysis
260 U.S. 22 · 1922
Citation profile
53 federal appellate · 14 district · 94 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 296 later decisions (82 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2025 · most notably Faretta v. California (1975), Baker v. Carr (1962)
53 federal appellate · 14 district · 94 state decisions — followed in 17 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 Chicago Co v. City of Chicago · Burgess v. Seligman · Noble State Bank v. Haskell · Fallbrook Irrigation District v. Bradley · Eubank v. City of Richmond
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 296 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If a thing has been practised for two hundred years by common consent, it will need a strong case for the Fourteenth Amendment to affect it.”
16 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In a case involving local history, as this does, we should be slow to overrule the decision of courts steeped in the local tradition, even if we saw reason for doubting it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hawks v. Hamill
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.