Lessee of Mordecai v. Peter M'Cartee’s Empirical Analysis
31 U.S. 102 · 1832
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 5 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2026 · most notably Old Colony Co v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue (1932), Torao Takahashi v. Fish and Game Commission (1948)
12 federal appellate · 5 district · 10 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.
Relationships
Relies on M'Creery's v. Somerville
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““By tbe Judiciary Act of September 24,1789, c. 20, § 34, it was enacted ‘tbat tbe laws of tbe several states, except where tbe Constitution, treaties, or statutes of tbe United States shall otherwise require or provides shall be regarded as rules of decision in trials at common law in tbe courts of the United States in eases where they apply.’ 1 Stat. 92 . Although that section stood between two sections clearly applicable to criminal cases, it was adjudged by1 this court at December term, 1851, upon a certificate of division of opinion of the Circuit Court, directly presenting the question, that the section did not include criminal trials, or leave to the states the power to prescribe and change from time to time the rules of evidence in trials in the courts of the United States for offences against the United States.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“if. an alien cometh into England and hath issue two sons, these two sons are indígenos, subjects born, because they are born within the realm;”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“'The legislature must be presumed to use words in their known and ordinary signification'”
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.