Massingill v. Downs’s Empirical Analysis
48 U.S. 760 · 1849
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 3 district · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2003 · most notably De Rodulfa v. United States (1972), Cooke v. Avery (1893)
7 federal appellate · 3 district · 20 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 Wayman v. Southard · The United States v. Jonah Crosby · McCormick v. Sullivant · James Carver v. James Jackson
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In those states where the judgment or the execution of a state court creates a lien only within the county in which the judgment is entered, it has not been doubted that a similar proceeding in the Circuit Court of the United States would create a lien to the extent of its jurisdiction. This has been the practical construction of the power of the courts of the United States whether the lien was held to be created by the issuing of process or by express statute. Any other construction would materially affect, and in some degree subvert, the judicial power of the Union. It would place suitors in the state courts in a much better condition than in the federal courts.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“no legislative act can change the rights and liabilities of parties which have been established by solemn judgment”
2 later decisions 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.