John Den James Murray and John Kayser v. The Hoboken Land and Improvement Company John Den James B Murray et al.’s Empirical Analysis
59 U.S. 272 · 1855
Citation profile
213 federal appellate · 78 district · 170 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,012 later decisions (192 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably In the Matter of Samuel Winship (1970), Daniels v. Williams (1986)
213 federal appellate · 78 district · 170 state decisions — followed in 42 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 Luther v. Borden · Martin v. Mott · United States v. Ferreira · Thatcher v. Powell
Cited together with Northern Pipeline Construction Co. v. Marathon Pipe Line Co. · Crowell v. Benson · Granfinanciera, S.A. v. Nordberg · Ex parte Bakelite Corp. · Thomas v. Union Carbide Agricultural Products Co.
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 1,012 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There are matters, involving public rights, which may lie presented in such form that the judicial power is capable of acting on them, and which are susceptible of judicial determination, but which Congress may or may not bring within the cognizance of the courts of the United States, as it may deem proper.””
22 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he Due Process Clause 'is a restraint on the legislative as well as on the executive and judicial powers of the government, and cannot be so construed as to leave congress free to make any process”
21 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“regular allegations, opportunity to answer, and a trial according to some settled course of judicial proceedings.”
6 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.