Wise v. Withers’s Empirical Analysis
7 U.S. 331 · 1806
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 9 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions (23 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2023 · most notably Baker v. Carr (1962), Pennhurst State School and Hospital v. Halderman (1984)
14 federal appellate · 9 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 Savacool v. Boughton · Vanderheyden v. Young · Shoemaker v. Nesbit
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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It follows, [therefore] from this opinion that a court-martial has no jurisdiction over a justice of the peace as a militiaman; he could never be legally-enrolled; and it is a principle that the decision of such a tribunal, in a case clearly without the jurisdiction, cannot protect the officer who executes it. The court and the officer are all trespassers. The judgment is reversed.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ex parte Beck · Angelus v. Sullivan“[i]t has been decided in this court, that a justice of the peace is an officer”
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.