Read v. Case’s Empirical Analysis
1822
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 3 district · 38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2016 · most notably Ker v. State of California (1963), Miller v. United States (1958)
10 federal appellate · 3 district · 38 state decisions — followed in 21 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.
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“had resolved . . . to resist even to the shedding of blood . . . was not within the reason and spirit of the rule requiring notice”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wilson v. Arkansas
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.