Fowler v. Merrill’s Empirical Analysis
52 U.S. 375 · 1850
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2017
2 federal appellate · 7 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.
Relationships
Relies on United States v. Hooe Et Al. · Hart v. Eyck · Brooks v. Marbury · Alexander Shirras John Black William Milligan William Blacklock Joseph Verrees v. John Caig Robert Mitchel · Smith & Hoe v. Acker
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“But it must be presumed to have been executed at its date till the contrary is shown * * *.”
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.