James Phalen v. The Commonwealth of Virginia’s Empirical Analysis
49 U.S. 163 · 1850
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 2 district · 42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 79 later decisions (10 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2011 · most notably Leisy v. Hardin (1890), Lottery Case (1903)
11 federal appellate · 2 district · 42 state decisions — followed in 19 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.
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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 79 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Experience has shown that the common forms of gambling are comparatively innocuous when placed in contrast with the wide-spread pestilence of lotteries. The former are confined to a few persons and places, but the latter infests the whole community: it enters every dwelling; it reaches every class; it preys upon the hard earnings of the poor; it plunders the ignorant and simple.”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Stone v. Mississippi · In re Rapier
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.