Shurbun v. Hooper’s Empirical Analysis
1879
Citation profile
1 district · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1940
1 district · 15 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.
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““By ‘courts,’ as the word is used in the Constitution, we understand permanent organizations for the administration of justice, and not those special tribunals provided for by law, that are occasionally called into existence' by particular exigencies, and that cease to exist with such exigencies.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bissell v. Heath
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.