Maillard v. Lawrence’s Empirical Analysis
57 U.S. 251 · 1853
Citation profile
37 federal appellate · 4 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 115 later decisions (30 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2014 · most notably Deputy v. du Pont (1940), Old Colony Co v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue (1932)
37 federal appellate · 4 district · 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.
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 115 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“clothing •ready made and wearing-apparel of every description, of whatever material composed, made up or manufactured,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“popular or received import of words furnishes the general rule for the interpretation of public laws,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a departure from the natural and popular acceptation of language,”
2 later decisions 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.