Edmonson v. Bloomshire’s Empirical Analysis
74 U.S. 306 · 1868
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions (15 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2012 · most notably Gonzalez v. Thaler (2012), Gonzalez v. Thaler (2012)
20 federal appellate · 6 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 Mesa v. The United States
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The prayer for the appeal and the order allowing it constituted a valid appeal.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““ It could have been given here, and cases have been brought here where no bond' was approved by the court below, and the court has permitted the appellant to give bond in this court.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Peugh v. Davis
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.