James Breedlove v. Theodor Nicolet’s Empirical Analysis
32 U.S. 413 · 1833
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 4 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2007 · most notably Sadat v. Mertes (1980), McGovern v. Philadelphia & Reading Railway Co. (1914)
13 federal appellate · 4 district · 12 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 William Parsons v. Bedford Breedlove · Ogden v. Saunders · Alexander Murray v. Charming Betsy · The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts v. The Town of Pawlet and Ozias Clarke
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If originally aliens, they did not cease to be so, nor lose their right to sue in the federal court, by a residence in Louisiana. Neither the constitution nor acts of congress require that aliens should reside abroad, to entitle them to sue in the courts of the United States.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“•‘On tlio principles of tbe civil law (the suit being in Louisiana where the civil law prevails) it would seem, that the defendants may be required to account for not joining the third promisor, * * * not for joining two of them.””
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.