Leffingwell v. Warren’s Empirical Analysis
67 U.S. 599 · 1862
Citation profile
48 federal appellate · 12 district · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 184 later decisions (46 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1983 · most notably Guaranty Trust Co. v. York (1945), Guaranty Trust Co. v. York (1945)
48 federal appellate · 12 district · 20 state decisions — followed in 12 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 · Asa Green v. The Lessee of Henry Neal · William M'Cluny v. Wyllis Silliman · Ross v. Duval
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 184 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The construction given to a statute of a state, by the highest judicial tribunal of such state, is regarded as a part of the statute, and is as binding upon the courts of the United States as the text.” Morley v, Lake Shore R. Co., 146 U. S. 162 , 13 Sup. Ct. 54 , 36 L. Ed. 925 ; Provident institution v. Massachusetts, 6 Wall. 611 , 18 L. Ed. 907 .”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“the construction given to a State statute by the highest judicial tribunal of such State, is regarded as a part of the statute and is as binding upon the courts of the United States as the text;”
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.