Plowden Weston v. The City Council of Charleston’s Empirical Analysis
27 U.S. 449 · 1829
Citation profile
48 federal appellate · 43 district · 116 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 492 later decisions (132 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2024 · most notably Flint v. Stone Tracy Co. (1911), Federal Housing Administration, Region No. 4 v. Burr (1940)
48 federal appellate · 43 district · 116 state decisions — followed in 35 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 M'Culloch v. State of Maryland · Osborn v. President Directors and Company of the Bank of the United States · Durousseau v. United States · Clerke v. Harwood
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 492 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“any proceeding in a court of justice, by which an individual pursues that remedy in a court of justice, which the law affords him.”
17 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Applying this language to these municipal securities, it is obvious that taxation on the interest therefrom would operate on the power to borrow before it is exercised, and would have a sensible influence on the contract, and that the tax in question is a tax on the power of the states and their instru-mentalities to borrow money, and consequently repugnant to the Constitution.””
13 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[Cjongress is vested with the exclusive exercise of the analogous power of coining money and regulating the value of domestic and foreign coin, and also with the paramount power of regulating foreign and interstate commerce. Under the power to borrow money on the credit of the United States, and to issue circulating notes for the money borrowed, its power to define the quality and force of those notes as currency is as broad as the like power over a metallic currency under the power to coin money and to regulate the value thereof. Under the two powers, taken together, congress is authorized to establish a national currency, either in coin or in paper, and to make that currency lawful money for all purposes, as regards the national government or private individuals.”
3 later decisions 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.