Lessee of French v. Spencer’s Empirical Analysis
62 U.S. 228 · 1858
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions (11 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2008 · most notably United States v. Detroit Timber & Lumber Co. (1906), Williamson v. United States (1908)
12 federal appellate · 30 state decisions — followed in 16 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 Jeremian Van Rensselaer v. Philip Kearney · Irvine v. Marshall · John Green v. John Liter · Troup v. Executors of Smith
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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he statute, on its face, makes no exceptions for inadmissible aliens .... It is a venerable principle of statutory interpretation `that where the Legislature makes a plain provision, without making any exception, the courts can make none'.”
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.