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67 U.S. 635 · 1862
Citation profile
50 federal appellate · 18 district · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 200 later decisions (39 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2017 · most notably United States v. Lopez (1995), Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer (1952)
50 federal appellate · 18 district · 28 state decisions — followed in 14 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 Armitz Drown v. The United States · United States v. Rice · Richardson v. Maine Fire & Marine Insurance · The Maryland Insurance Company v. Woods
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 200 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““‘If it-were necessary to the technical existence of a' war that it should have legislative sanction, we find it in almost every Act passed at the extraor- ■ dinary session of the Legislature of 1861, which was wholly employed in enacting laws to enable the govern- ■ ment to prosecute the war with vigor and efficiency.’ ””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“He must determine what degree of force the crisis demands.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage““Insurrection against a government may or may not culminate in an organized rebellion, but a civil war always begins by insurrection against the lawful authority of the Government. A civil war is never solemnly declared; it becomes such by its accidents — the number, power, and organization of the persons who originate and carry it on. When the party in rebellion occupy and hold in a hostile manner a certain portion of territory; have declared their independence; have cast off their allegiance; have organized armies; have commenced hostilities against their former sovereign, the world acknowledges them as belligerents, and the contest a war.” 67 U.S. (2 Black) at 666-67 (emphasis in original).”
2 later decisions 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.