Stuart v. Laird’s Empirical Analysis
5 U.S. 299 · 1803
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 8 district · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 141 later decisions (34 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2026 · most notably United States v. Curtiss-Wright Export Corp. (1936), Field v. Clark (1892)
25 federal appellate · 8 district · 36 state decisions — followed in 16 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 Fenwick v. Sears's Administrators
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 141 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“commence[d] with the organization of the judicial system”
11 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.