City of Paris’s Empirical Analysis
76 U.S. 634 · 1869
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 15 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1959 · most notably Walker v. Dun (1887), Alabama (1883)
6 federal appellate · 15 district · 2 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.
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The acts complained of were done in the excitement of the moment, and in extremis. Whether they were wise it is not material to inquire. H unwise, they were errors and not faults. In such cases the law in its wisdom gives absolution.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. The Charles Hubbard
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.