Board of Commissioners v. Aspinwall’s Empirical Analysis
62 U.S. 539 · 1858
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 5 district · 53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 149 later decisions (38 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1980 · most notably Owen v. City of Independence (1980), Louisville Ry Co v. Louisville Trust Co Same (1899)
18 federal appellate · 5 district · 53 state decisions — followed in 28 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 Rogers v. Law
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 149 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The bonds on their face import a compliance with the law under which they were issued . . . The purchaser was not bound to look further for evidence of a compliance with the conditions to the grant of the power.” (p. 545.)”
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.