Martin v. House’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““When the title is acquired by purchase, by consent of the Legisla tures of thé slates, the federal jurisdiction is exclusive of all slate authority. This follows from the declaration of tile Constitution that Congress shall have ‘like authority’ over such places as it lias over the district^ which is the seat of government; that is, the power of ‘exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever.’ Broader and clearer language could not be used to exclude all other authority than that of Congress; and that no other authority can be exercised over them has been the uniform opinion of federal and state tribunals and of. the Attorneys General. The reservation which has usually accompanied the consent of the states that civil and criminal process of the state courts may be served in the places purchased is not considered as interfering in any respect with the supremacy of the United .States over them, but is admitted to prevent them from becoming an asylum for fugitives from justice. And Congress, by statute passed in 1795, declared that cessions from the states of the jurisdiction of places where lighthouses, beacons, buoys, or public piers were or might be erected, with such reservations, should be deemed sufficient for the support and erection of such structures,’ and if no such reservation had been made, or in future cessions for those purposes should be omitted, civil and criminal process, issued under the authority of the state or of the United States, might be served and execu”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. United States v. Pierce County

2. ““When the title is acquired by purchase by consent of the legislatures of the states, the federal jurisdiction is exclusive of all state authority. This follows from the declaration of the Constitution that Congress shall have ‘like authority’ over such places as it has over the district which is the seat of government; that is, the power of ‘exclusive legislation in all eases whatsoever.’ Broader or clearer language could not be used to exclude all other authority than that of Congress; and that no other authority can be exercised over them has been the uniform opinion of federal and state tribunals, and of attorneys general.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. United States v. Tucker