Ex Parte George Milburn’s Empirical Analysis
34 U.S. 704 · 1835
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 2 district · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions (11 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2013 · most notably Stack v. Boyle (1952), Burrus (1890)
20 federal appellate · 2 district · 22 state decisions — followed in 14 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 Tobias Watkins
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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to secure the due attendance of the party accused, to answer the indictment, and to submit to a trial, and the judgment of the court thereon”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““A discharge of a party under a writ of habeas corpus from the process under which he is imprisoned, discharges him from any further confinement under that process, but not under any other process which may be issued against him under the same indictment.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In re White
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.