Bronson v. Rodes’s Empirical Analysis
74 U.S. 229 · 1868
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions (19 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2005 · most notably Norman v. Baltimore & or (1935), Perry v. United States (1935)
14 federal appellate · 16 state decisions — followed in 10 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 Faw v. Marsteller · Warnibold v. Schlicting
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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“from ,a contract to deliver an equal weight of bullion of equal fineness.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“.is, in -legal import, nothing else than an agreement to deliver a'certain weight of standard gold, to be ascertained by a count of coins,”
2 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.