United States v. George Wilson’s Empirical Analysis
32 U.S. 150 · 1833
Citation profile
48 federal appellate · 29 district · 107 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 237 later decisions (16 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2019 · most notably Morrissey v. Brewer (1972), Herrera v. Collins (1993)
48 federal appellate · 29 district · 107 state decisions — followed in 34 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 United States v. Klein · Ex Parte: in the Matter of William Wells on a Petition for a Writ of Habeas Corpus · Armstrong v. United States
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 237 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A pardon is an act of grace, proceeding from the power intrusted with the execution of the laws, which exempts the individual, on whom it is bestowed, from the punishment the law inflicts for a crime he has committed.”
27 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““ . . . [a legislative pardon] is considered as a public law; having the same effect on the case as if the general law punishing the offense had been repealed or annulled.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“it without bringing the same judicially before the court by appeal, motion, or otherwise. .Upon this question the judges were opposed in opinion, and it was stated under their direction, and certified to this court and here considered and deqided. The court regarded the motion as one going to the merits of his case, having a direct bearing upon the punish1 ment to be imposed, and not a question determinable in the discretion of the court, and held that it could properly consider the question upon a certificate of division in opinion of the judges of the Circuit Court. Holding, therefore, that we can consider the question certified, disregarding the irrelevant matter accompanying the certificate, we proceed to its examination. The treaty concluded October 4, 1842, and proclaimed in March, 1843, 7 Stat. 591 , between the United States and the Chippewa Indians, ceded to the United States a large tract of land between Lake Superior and the Mississippi.' In article 5 it recited that the whole country between those points”
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.