Davis Lawler Timothy Walker Stephen L'Hommedieu George Graham John Harrison and Jacob Burnet v. James H and John Walker’s Empirical Analysis
55 U.S. 149 · 1852
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions (14 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 1937 · most notably Weems v. United States (1910), McPherson v. Blacker (1892)
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 Directors and Company of the Commercial Bank of Cincinnati v. Eunice Buckingham
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is not enough, that the record shows that 'the plaintiff in error contended and claimed’ that the judgment of the court impaired the obligation of a contract, and violated the provisions of the constitution of the United States, and 'that this claim was overruled by the court’; but it must appear, by clear and necessary intendment, that the question must have been raised, and must have been decided, in order to induce the judgment. Let us inquire, then, whether it appears on the face of this record, that the validity of a statute of Ohio, ‘on the ground of its repugnancy to the constitution or laws of the United States’ was drawn in question in this case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Honeyman v. Hanan““We will add, if this court should entertain jurisdiction upon a certificate alone in the absence of any evidence of the question in the record, then the Supreme Court of the State can give the jurisdiction in every case where the question is made by counsel in the argument. The office of the certificate, as it respects the Federal question, is to make more certain and specific what is too general and indefinite in the record, but it is incompetent to originate the question within the true construction of the 25th section [of the Judiciary Act].” Id., p. 39.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Honeyman v. Hanan“appear in the pleadings of the suit,-or from the evidence in the course of the trial, in the instructions asked for, or from exceptions taken to the rulings of the court,”
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.