Barnett Eliza Levy v. Edmund David Fitzpatrick’s Empirical Analysis
40 U.S. 167 · 1841
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1937
3 federal appellate · 2 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.
Relationships
Relies on Henry Toland v. Horatio Sprague · Marin v. Lalley · 3 Mart. (N.S.) 498 - Gurlie v. Coquet · Fleming v. Conrad
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the jurisdiction of the courts of the United States is limited by law, and can only be exercised in specified cases.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.