Ex parte Houghton’s Empirical Analysis
8 F. 897 · 1881
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
cited 1 times by the Supreme Court
March 1959
most recently cited
1 district ·
Relationships
Relies on Ex parte Lange · Sturges v. Crowninshield · Martin Fairfax v. Hunter's · Edward Prigg v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · The Moses Taylor
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ Article VI. This constitution, and the laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof, * # * shall be the supreme law of the land, and the judges in every state shall bo bound thereby, anything in the constitution or laws of any state to the contrary notwithstanding.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ex parte Houghton
How this case has been treated — in progress
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