Webster v. Cooper’s Empirical Analysis
51 U.S. 54 · 1850
Citation profile
2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions (19 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2018 · most notably United States v. Mayer (1914), Triplett v. Lowell (1936)
2 state decisions
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This court has frequently said that this practice is irregular, and would, if sanctioned, convert this court into one of original jurisdiction in questions of law, instead of being, as the'Constitution intended it to be, an appellate court to revise the decisions of inferior tribunals. Indeed, it would impose "upon it the duty of deciding in the first instance, not only the questions, of law which properly belonged to the case, but also questions merely hypothetical and speculative, which might or might not arise as previous questions were ruled the one way or the other.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jewell v. Knight“This court has frequently said that this practice is irregular, and would, if sanctioned, convert this court into one of original jurisdiction in questions of law, instead of being, as the'Constitution intended it to be, an appellate court to revise the decisions of inferior tribunals. Indeed, it would impose”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jewell v. Knight
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.