Alexandrine Mager v. Felix Grima’s Empirical Analysis
49 U.S. 490 · 1850
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 3 district · 61 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 148 later decisions (37 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1996 · most notably Weber v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Co. (1972), Knowlton v. Moore (1900)
6 federal appellate · 3 district · 61 state decisions — followed in 25 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.
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 148 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Now the law in question is nothing more than an exercise of the power which every state and sovereignty possesses, of regulating the manner and term upon which property real and personal within its dominion may be transmitted by last will and testament, or by inheritance; and of prescribing who shall and who shall not be capable of taking it. * * * And if a state may deny the privilege altogether, it follows that, when it grants it, it may annex to the grant any conditions which it supposes to be required by its interests or policy.””
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“This is’a plain case, and when the facts are stated the questions of law-may be disposed of in a few words.”
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.