United States v. Jackalow’s Empirical Analysis
66 U.S. 484 · 1861
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 4 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2025 · most notably Moses Haas v. William Henkel (1910), Kan-Gi-Shun-Ca (1883)
19 federal appellate · 4 district · 3 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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Grimes committed against the laws of the United States out of the limits of a state are not local, but may bo tried at such place as congress shall designate by law, but are local if committed within the state. They must then be tried in the district in which the offense; was committed.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.