Mayor v. Cooper’s Empirical Analysis
73 U.S. 247 · 1867
Citation profile
82 federal appellate · 35 district · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 317 later decisions (39 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2020 · most notably Buckhannon Board and Care Home Incs v. West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources (2001), Kline v. Burke Construction Co. (1922)
82 federal appellate · 35 district · 19 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 The United States v. Judge Peters · Reichart v. Felps
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 317 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Constitution ... ha[s] given to the court the capacity to take it, and an act of Congress ... ha[s] supplied it.... To the extent that such action is not taken, the power lies dormant.”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“no power to do anything but to strike the case from the docket.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Pentlarge v. Kirby · W.G., as Sister and Next Best Friend on Behalf of D.G., David Ortiz, as Brother and Next Best Friend on Behalf of D.O. Robert Roy, as Father and Next Best Friend on Behalf of Johnny Doe, Intervenor-Plaintiffs v. Rose Ann Senatore, Commissioner, Connecticut Department of Children & Youth Services Connecticut Department of Children & Youth Services Dolores Woodward, Superintendent of Schools, Unified School District II Waterford Country School, Inc.“Jurisdiction, original or appellate, alike comprehensive in either case, may be given. The constitutional boundary line of both is the same. Every variety and form of appellate jurisdiction within the sphere of the power, extending as well to the courts of the States as to those of the nation, is permitted. There is no distinction in this respect between civil and criminal cases. Both are within its scope. Nor is it any objection that questions are involved which are not at all of a Federal character. If one of the latter exist, if there be a single such ingredient in the mass, it is sufficient.”
3 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.