Lawrence v. Caswell’s Empirical Analysis
54 U.S. 488 · 1851
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2019 · most notably Austin, Nichols & Co. v. United States (1949), United States v. Browne Vintners Co. (1946)
7 federal appellate · 3 district ·
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 Marriott v. Brune
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the duty demanded was paid under protest, stating specially the ground of objection.”
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.