Tobias Watkins’s Empirical Analysis
32 U.S. 568 · 1833
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 3 district · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 92 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2026 · most notably United States Marcus v. Hess (1943), Browning-Ferris Industries of Vermont, Inc. v. Kelco Disposal, Inc. (1989)
23 federal appellate · 3 district · 28 state decisions — followed in 12 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 William Marbury v. James Madison · Ex Parte Tobias Watkins · Ex Parte Bollman and Ex Parte Swartwout · Kearney · Ex parte Burford
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 92 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that it revises and corrects the proceedings in a cause already instituted, and does not create that cause.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he eighth amendment is addressed to courts of the United States exercising criminal jurisdiction.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The jurisdiction of the court can never depend upon its decision upon the merits of the case brought before it; but upon its right to hear and decide it at all."”
2 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.