Irwin v. Dixion’s Empirical Analysis
50 U.S. 10 · 1850
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 9 district · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 110 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2016 · most notably Rizzo v. Goode (1976), Delaware Co v. Town of Morristown (1928)
29 federal appellate · 9 district · 31 state decisions — followed in 18 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 The President Recorder and Trustees of the City of Cincinnati v. The Lessee of Edward White · Attorney-General v. Utica Insurance · Barclay v. Richard W. Howell's Lessee · 2 Johns. Ch. 161 - Gardner v. Trustees of Village of Newburgh
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 110 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to be used sparingly, and only in a clear and plain case.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““And no remedy whatever exists in these cases by an individual, unless lie has suffered some private, direct and material damage beyond the public at large; as well as damage otherwise irreparable.””
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.