Ely v. Peck’s Empirical Analysis
1828
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1943
1 federal appellate · 6 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 Martin Fairfax v. Hunter's
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the judiciary of a state is a constituent part of another and an independent sovereignty, from which they receive their authority and support; whose laws they are bound to execute. But they are under no such obligations to the United States, whose laws they are bound to obey as citizens, but not to execute as magistrates.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lapinski v. Copacino“the judicial Power of the United States, shall be vested in one Supreme Court, and in such inferior Courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lapinski v. Copacino
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.