John Barron John Craig Luke Tiernan John Craig v. Mayor City Council of Baltimore’s Empirical Analysis
32 U.S. 243 · 1833
Citation profile
70 federal appellate · 36 district · 163 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 498 later decisions (95 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York (1978), Johnson v. Zerbst (1938)
70 federal appellate · 36 district · 163 state decisions — followed in 38 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 Strauder v. West Virginia · Civil Rights Cases · Virginia v. Rives · Neal v. Delaware · Missouri v. Lewis
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 498 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"But it is universally understood, it is a part of the history of the day, that the great revolution which established the constitution of the United States, was not effected without immense opposition. Serious fears were extensively entertained that those powers which the patriot statesmen, who then watched over the interests of our country, deemed essential to union, and to the attainment of those invaluable objects for which union was sought, might be exercised in a manner dangerous to liberty. In almost every convention by which the constitution was adopted, amendments to guard against the abuse of power were recommended. These amendments demanded security against the apprehended encroachments of the general government not against those of the local governments. " (Emphasis added.)”
17 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““SECTION 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“. . . be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.”
2 later decisions 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.