Billings v. Morrow’s Empirical Analysis
1857
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently February 1957 · most notably DeVaughn v. McLeroy (1889), Moore v. Gould (1907)
23 state decisions — followed in 10 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.
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where the authority to perform specific acts is given in the power, and general words are also employed, such words are limited to the particular acts authorized.”
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.