Ex parte Yerger’s Empirical Analysis
75 U.S. 85 · 1868
Citation profile
83 federal appellate · 38 district · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 294 later decisions (63 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2023 · most notably Fay v. Noia (1963), Rose v. Lundy (1982)
83 federal appellate · 38 district · 34 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.
Relationships
Relies on William Marbury v. James Madison · Ex parte Burford
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 294 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he great writ of habeas corpus has been for centuries esteemed the best and only sufficient defence of personal freedom.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Staley v. Jones · Cooper v. Taylor“Repeals by implication are not favored. They are seldom admitted except on the ground of repugnancy; and never, we think, when the former act can stand together with the new act.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]n all . . . Cases . . . the Supreme Court shall have appellate Jurisdiction, both as to Law and Fact, with such Exceptions . . . as the Congress shall make.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.