The Protector’s Empirical Analysis
79 U.S. 700 · 1871
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 5 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions (16 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2016 · most notably Baker v. Carr (1962), Hamilton v. Kentucky Distilleries & Warehouse Co. (1919)
19 federal appellate · 5 district · 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
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to some public act of the political departments of the government to fix the dates.”
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.