Mississippi v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
71 U.S. 475 · 1866
Citation profile
60 federal appellate · 56 district · 48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 292 later decisions (28 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2023 · most notably Baker v. Carr (1962), Massachusetts v. Mellon (1923)
60 federal appellate · 56 district · 48 state decisions — followed in 23 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 William Marbury v. James Madison
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 292 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`a simple, definite duty, arising under conditions admitted or proved to exist, and imposed by law.'”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Suppose the bill filed and the injunction prayed for allowed. If the President refuse obedience, it is needless to observe that the, court is without power to enforce its process. If, on the other hand, the President complies with the order of the court and refuses to execute the acts of Congress, is it not clear that a collision may occur between the executive and legislative, departments of the government? May not the House of Representatives impeach the President for such refusal? And in that ease could this court interfere, in behalf of the President, thus endangered by compliance with its mandate, and restrain by injunction the Senate of tho United States from sitting as a court of impeachment? Would the strange spectacle be offered to the, public world of an attempt by (bis court to arrest proceedings in that court?””
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“this court has no jurisdiction of a bill to enjoin the President in the performance of his official duties.”
6 later decisions 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.