The Lessee of Henry Brewer v. Jacob Blougher’s Empirical Analysis
39 U.S. 178 · 1840
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions (18 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2022 · most notably United States v. Trans-Missouri Freight Ass'n (1897), Hooper v. People of State of California (1895)
6 federal appellate · 29 state decisions — followed in 16 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 Stevenson's v. Sullivant
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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ It is undoubtedly the duty of the court to ascertain the meaning of the legislature, from the words used in the statute, and the subject-matter to which it relates; and to restrain its operation within narrower limits than its words import, if the court are satisfied that the literal meaning of its language would extend to cases which the legislature never designed to embrace in it.””
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The Act of 1825 (ch. 156, of Maryland), provides: ‘That the illegitimate child or children of any female, and the issue of any such illegitimate child or children, be, and they are hereby declared to be, able and capable, in law, to take and inherit both real and personal estate from their mother, or from each other, or from the descendants of each other, as the case may be, in like manner as if born in lawful wedlock.’ Then follows a proviso, which has no application to the present question.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.