United States v. Heth’s Empirical Analysis
7 U.S. 399 · 1806
Citation profile
70 federal appellate · 25 district · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 189 later decisions (20 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2024 · most notably Landgraf v. USI Film Products (1994), Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Corp. v. Bonjorno (1990)
70 federal appellate · 25 district · 28 state decisions — followed in 13 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.
Relationships
Relies on Calder et Wife, v. Bull et Wife. · Dash v. Van Kleeck · Kinney v. . Kiernan · Sayre v. Wisner
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 189 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he first rule of construction is that legislation must be considered as addressed to the future, not to the past ... [a] retrospective operation will not be given to a statute which interferes with antecedent rights ... unless such be the ‘unequivocal and inflexible import of the terms, and the manifest intention of the legislature. ’ .”
22 later decisions 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.