Camden v. Doremus’s Empirical Analysis
44 U.S. 515 · 1845
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 1991 · most notably Bram v. United States (1897), District of Columbia v. Woodbury (1890)
24 federal appellate · 19 state decisions — followed in 13 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 Dulany v. Hodgkin
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“consider objections of this character as vague and nugatory, and, if entitled to weight anywhere, certainly as ■without weight before an appellate court.”
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.