State v. Brewster’s Empirical Analysis
1835
Citation profile
3 district · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 1940 · most notably Ker v. People of the State of Illinois (1886), Mahon v. Justice (1888)
3 district · 23 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.
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If there were anything 'improper in the transaction it was not that the prisoner was entitled to protection on his own account. The illegality, if any, consists in a violation of the sovereignty of an independent nation. If that nation complain it is a' matter which concerns the political. relations of the two countries, and in that aspect is a subject not within the constitutional powers of this court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Mahon v. Justice
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.