Withers v. Patterson’s Empirical Analysis
1864
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2010 · most notably Cunnius v. Reading School District (1905), National Life Co. v. Rice (1943)
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 44 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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“constitution and laws, to hear and determine causes between parties, and to carry its judgments into effect. It is a plain proposition, that a court has no power to do anything which is not authorized by law. * * * * * *”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““Presumptions are indulged in the absence of proof and not against proof.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.