Gustavus Beauregard v. The City of New Orleans’s Empirical Analysis
59 U.S. 497 · 1855
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 2 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions (12 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 1997 · most notably Baltimore Co v. Baugh (1893), Arndt v. Griggs (1890)
16 federal appellate · 2 district · 8 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.
Relationships
Relies on Grignon's Lessee v. Astor · Julia Thompson Tenant v. Alice Tolmie · Jackson v. Chew · Wyman v. Campbell
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The constitution of this court requires it to follow the laws of the several states wherever they properly apply; and the habit of this court has been to defer to the decisions of their judicial tribunals upon questions arising out of the common law of the state, especially when applied to the title to lands. Upon cases libe the present, the relation of the courts of the United States to a state is the same as that of her own tribunals. They administer the laws of the state, and, to fulfill that duty, they must find them as they exist in the habits of the people, and in the exposition of their constituted authorities. Without this, the peculiar organization of the judicial tribunals of the states and the Union would be productive of the greatest mischief and confusion.””
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.