Jane Watson v. John Mercer’s Empirical Analysis
33 U.S. 88 · 1834
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 3 district · 42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 105 later decisions (19 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2010 · most notably Mugler v. State of Kansas State of Kansas Tufts (1887), Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Corp. v. Bonjorno (1990)
7 federal appellate · 3 district · 42 state decisions — followed in 19 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 Fletcher v. Peck · New Jersey v. Wilson · Terrett v. Taylor · Inhabitants of Somerset v. Inhabitants of Dighton
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 105 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““As to the first point, it is clear, that this court has no right to pronounce an act of the state legislature void, as contrary to the Constitution of the United States, from the mere fact that it divests antecedent vested rights of property.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Stadelman v. Miner
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.