William Parsons v. Bedford Breedlove’s Empirical Analysis
28 U.S. 433 · 1830
Citation profile
242 federal appellate · 60 district · 72 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 768 later decisions (72 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2026 · most notably Steel Co. v. Citizens for a Better Environment (1998), Parklane Hosiery Co. v. Shore (1979)
242 federal appellate · 60 district · 72 state decisions — followed in 27 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.
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 768 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'suits in which legal rights were to be ascertained and determined, in contradistinction to those where equitable rights alone were recognized, and equitable remedies were administered.'”
89 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““In suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury shall be otherwise reexamined in any Court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law.””
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“`No fact, tried by a jury, shall be otherwise re-examinable, in any court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law.' This is a prohibition to the courts of the United States to re-examine any facts tried by a jury, in any other manner. * * * 10”
11 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.