Isabella Mackay v. Patrick M. Dillon’s Empirical Analysis
45 U.S. 421 · 1846
Citation profile
1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions (9 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2000 · most notably Truax v. Corrigan (1921), Kansas City Southern Railway Co. v. C. H. Albers Commission Co. (1912)
1 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.
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Now that this court has no jurisdiction, under the twenty-fifth section of the Judiciary Act of 1789, to reexamine the decision of a state court, which drew in question the mere fact of where a dividing line between two tracts of .land was, is too plain for discussion. Had the decision of the Supreme Court of Louisiana stopped here, then certainly jurisdiction would be wanting.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dower v. Richards
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.