Hepburn & Dundas v. Ellzey’s Empirical Analysis
1805
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 28 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 108 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2024 · most notably District of Columbia v. Carter (1973), City of Indianapolis v. Chase Nat Bank of City of New York (1941)
24 federal appellate · 28 district · 10 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 108 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is true, that as citizens of the United States, and of that particular district which is subject to the jurisdiction of congress, it is extraordinary, that the courts of the United States, which are open to aliens, and to citizens of every state in the union, should be closed upon them. But this is a subject for legislative, not for judicial consideration.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the members of the American confederacy only are the States contemplated in the constitution”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“between a citizen of the State where the suit is brought, and a citizen of another State.”
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.