Bethell v. Demaret’s Empirical Analysis
77 U.S. 537 · 1870
Citation profile
1 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions (18 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 1917 · most notably New Orleans Water-Works Co v. Louisiana Sugar Refining Co (1888), Pennsylvania Railroad Company v. William Hughes F a (1903)
1 district · 5 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 Ducat v. Chicago
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“where is drawn in question the validity of a statute of, or an authority exercised under, any State; on the ground of their being repugnant to the Constitution, treaties or laws of the United States, and the decision is in favor of such their validity.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The authority conferred on a court to hear and determine cases in a State is not the kind of authority referred to in the 25th section; otherwise, every judgment of the Supreme Court of a State would be re-examinable under the section.”
1 later decision 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.