Marsh v. Fulton County’s Empirical Analysis
77 U.S. 676 · 1870
Citation profile
41 federal appellate · 8 district · 98 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 220 later decisions (23 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2006 · most notably Heckman v. United States (1912), Norton v. Shelby County (1886)
41 federal appellate · 8 district · 98 state decisions — followed in 31 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.
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 220 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The obligation to do justice rests upon all persons, natural and artificial, and if a county obtains the money or property of others without authority, the law, independent of any statute, will compel restitution or compensation.””
18 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.