Ex parte Vallandigham’s Empirical Analysis
68 U.S. 243 · 1863
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 4 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions (14 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2018 · most notably Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer (1952), Schlesinger v. Councilman (1975)
13 federal appellate · 4 district · 8 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.
Relationships
Relies on William Marbury v. James Madison
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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is affirmed in these instructions that military jurisdiction is of two kinds. First, that which is confened. and defined by statute; second, that which is derived from the common law of war. Military offences, under the statute, must be tried in the manner therein directed; but military offences, which do not come within the statute, must be tried and punished under the common law of war.”
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.