Bronson v. Kinzie’s Empirical Analysis
42 U.S. 311 · 1843
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 4 district · 160 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 334 later decisions (55 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2022 · most notably Ex Parte: Edward T Young (1908), Hans v. State of Louisiana (1890)
33 federal appellate · 4 district · 160 state decisions — followed in 38 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 Green v. Biddle · Bank of the United States v. Halstead
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 334 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(r)egulations of this description have always been considered, in every civilized community, as properly belonging to the remedy, to be exercised or not by every sovereignty, according to its own views of policy and humanity.”
18 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““ The distinction between the obligation of a contract, and the remedy given by the legislature to enforce that obligation, has been taken at the bar, and exists in the nature of things. Without impairing the obligation of the contract, the remedy may certainly be modified, as the wisdom of the nation shall direct.””
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.