Ewing v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
1862
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently December 2006 · most notably Sowers Estate (1956), Harwood v. Bruhn Et Ux (1933)
2 federal appellate · 26 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.
Relationships
Relies on William Marbury v. James Madison · Patchin v. Mayor of Brooklyn
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Very many English as well as American authorities are quoted in Patchin v. Mayo, etc., 13 Wend. [N. Y.] 664. There are very many others, all holding a common-law writ of certiorari, whether issued before or after judgment, to be in effect a supersedeas. There are none to the contrary. In some of them it is ruled that action by the inferior court after the service of the writ is erroneous; in others it is stated to be void and punishable as a contempt They all, however, assert no more than that the power of the tribunal to which the writ is directed is suspended by it, that the judicial proceedings can proceed no farther in the lower court.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Waskey v. Hammer
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.