Conner v. St. John Elliott’s Empirical Analysis
59 U.S. 591 · 1855
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 3 district · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions (12 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1995 · most notably Oregon v. Mitchell (1970), Leisy v. Hardin (1890)
12 federal appellate · 3 district · 19 state decisions — followed in 15 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.
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The citizens of each state shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of citizens in the several states.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“We do not deem it needful to attempt to define the meaning of the word privileges in this clause of the Constitution. It is safer, and more in accordance with the duty of a judicial tribunal, to leave its meaning to be determined, in each case, upon a view of the particular rights asserted and denied therein. And especially is this true when we are dealing with so broad a provision, involving matters not only of great delicacy and importance, but which are of such a character that any merely abstract definition could scarcely be correct; and a failure to make it so would certainly produce mischief.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Blake v. McClung
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.