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In the Matter of Nicholas Lucien Metzger’s Empirical Analysis

46 U.S. 176 Ā· 1847

Citation profile

48
cited by 48 later decisions
9
cited 9 times by the Supreme Court
4
states following
June 2019
most recently cited

20 federal appellate Ā· 3 district Ā· 6 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 48 later decisions (9 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2019 Ā· most notably Ex parte Virginia (1879), Fong Yue Ting v. United States (1893)

20 federal appellate Ā· 3 district Ā· 6 state decisions

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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 Ā· Osborn v. President Directors and Company of the Bank of the United States Ā· United States v. Wiltberger Ā· United States v. Hudson Ā· The State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantationss v. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. ā€œa special authority, and the law has made no provision for revision of his judgment. It cannot be brought before the District or Circuit Court; consequently it cannot, in the nature of an appeal, be brought before this court.ā€
    1 later decision quote this exact passage Ā· from the majority
  2. ā€œnecessary or appropriate in aid of ... (an issuing court's) jurisdiction( ) and agreeable to the usages and principles of law.ā€
    1 later decision quote this exact passage Ā· from the concurrence
  3. ā€œwas heard and decided by the district judge at his chambers, and not in courtā€
    1 later decision quote this exact passage Ā· 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.