Dwight v. Merritt’s Empirical Analysis
4 F. 614 · 1880
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1983
2 federal appellate · 5 district ·
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““All writs and processes issuing from the courts of the United States shall be under the seal of the' court from which they issue, and shall be signed by the clerk thereof. Those issuing from the Supreme Court or a Circuit Court shall bear teste of the Chief Justice of the United States, or, when that office is vacant, of the Associate Justice next in precedence, and those issuing from a District Court shall bear teste of the judge, or, when that office, is vacant, of the clerk thereof.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.