James Bell v. Matthias Bruen’s Empirical Analysis
42 U.S. 169 · 1843
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 2 district · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions (15 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2017 · most notably Dothard v. Rawlinson (1977), Liverpool & Great Western Steam Co. v. Phenix Insurance (1889)
17 federal appellate · 2 district · 23 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 Dobbin v. Bradley · the People v. Ransom. · Wright v. Johnson · Beekman v. Hale
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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It was an engagement to be executed in. England, and must be considered and have effect according to the laws of that country,”
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.