Ex Parte Jesse Hoyt’s Empirical Analysis
38 U.S. 279 · 1839
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 1995
2 federal appellate · 11 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 In the Matter of the Life and Fire Insurance Company of New York v. The Heirs of Nicholas Wilson · The Life and Fire Insurance Company of New York v. Christopher Adams
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ It has been repeatedly declared by this Court that it will not by mandamus direct a judge what judgment to enter in a suit, but only will require him to proceed to render judgment.””
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.