Marshall v. Holmes’s Empirical Analysis
1887
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1933
6 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 United States v. Cochrane
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Common sense and logic alike point to the rule that a cause not appealable in amount to this court for the review of the judgment rendered therein cannot be made appealable here to review the judgment rendered in action of nullity in the same cause.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Marshall v. Holmes
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.