Norris v. Crocker’s Empirical Analysis
54 U.S. 429 · 1851
Citation profile
32 federal appellate · 18 district · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 150 later decisions (21 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2011 · most notably Landgraf v. USI Film Products (1994), Meeker v. Lehigh Valley Railroad (1915)
32 federal appellate · 18 district · 27 state decisions — followed in 14 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 United States v. Hodge · Bartlet v. King · Pearce v. Atwood · Yeaton v. The United States
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 150 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘“As a general rule, it is not open to controversy, that, where a new statute covers the whole subject-matter of an old one, adds offenses, and prescribes different penalties for those enumerated in the old law, the former is repealed by implication, as the provisions of both cannot stand together.’””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The act of 1829 inhibiting gaming, covers the whole ground of the previous statute, so far as the keeping, exhibiting, carrying on, or being in any manner interested in, any gaming-table or bank whatever is concerned, and includes every offense connected with the subject-matter: and, as it provides a different, and in some respects a milder, punishment for these offenses than the previous statutes, it repeals them so far as the same offenses are provided to be punished by it.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Bussell“As the plaintiff's right to recover depended entirely on the statute, its repeal deprived the court of jurisdiction over the subject matter. And in the next place, as the plaintiff had no vested right in the penalty, the Legislature might discharge the defendant by repealing the law.”
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.