Freeborn v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
69 U.S. 160 · 1864
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 1 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 90 later decisions (37 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2014 · most notably Landgraf v. USI Film Products (1994), Bradley v. School Board of City of Richmond (1974)
33 federal appellate · 1 district · 7 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 Humiston v. Stainthorp · Hepburn v. Curts
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 90 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If it comes within the category of retrospective legislation ... we find nothing in the Constitution limiting the power of Congress to amend or correct omissions in previous acts.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“`all cases of appeal . . . heretofore prosecuted and now pending in the Supreme Court of the United States . . . may be heard and determined by the Supreme Court of the United States'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[i]f it be possible for a right to attach itself to a judgment, it has done so here, and there could not be a plainer case of an attempt to destroy it by legislative action.”
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.