John Brown v. _____ Duchesne’s Empirical Analysis
60 U.S. 183 · 1856
Citation profile
108 federal appellate · 31 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 331 later decisions (44 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2020 · most notably Lauritzen v. Larsen (1953), Bob Jones University v. United States (1983)
108 federal appellate · 31 district · 12 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 The Lessee of Henry Brewer v. Jacob Blougher · Samuel Harris v. James Dennie · Adam Mills v. The County of St. Clair and James Harrison
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 331 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`it is well settled that, in interpreting a statute, the court will not look merely to a particular clause in which general words may be used, but will take in connection with it the whole statute . . . and the objects and policy of the law . . . .'”
32 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“do not, and were not intended to, operate beyond the limits of the United States.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]hether any improvement in the construction or equipment of a foreign vessel, for which a patent has been obtained in the United States, can be used by such vessel within the jurisdiction of the United States, while she is temporarily there for the purposes of commerce, without the consent of the patentee.”
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.