Marshall Impeachment Case’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
80 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 80 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably Archbishop O'Hara's Appeal (1957), Driscoll v. Burlington-Bristol Bridge Co. (1952)
80 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 Yakus v. United States · Panama Refining Co. v. Ryan · United States v. Grimaud · Taylor v. Beckham · Wilson v. Philadelphia School District
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 80 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Rule 4 of the Rules of Council, Manual of the City of Philadelphia for 1949, page 14, provides: ‘A quorum shall consist of a majority of the members elected to council.’ This number is twelve, and it governs even where variance exists in the Council membership of twenty-two. It also constitutes a majority of such membership. Therefore it seems that twelve councilmen must concur in finding the accused guilty .. .. ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Zemprelli v. Daniels“Legislative power is the power to make, alter, and repeal laws.”
1 later decision 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.