Ex Parte Bollman and Ex Parte Swartwout’s Empirical Analysis
8 U.S. 75 · 1807
Citation profile
74 federal appellate · 18 district · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 270 later decisions (68 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2026 · most notably Schneckloth v. Bustamonte (1973), Fay v. Noia (1963)
74 federal appellate · 18 district · 36 state decisions — followed in 18 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.
Relationships
Relies on Ex parte Virginia · Ex Parte Tobias Watkins · Turner v. Bank of North America · Pendleton and Webb v. Wambersie and Others
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 270 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McNally v. Hill · Felker v. Turpin“[T]he power to award the writ by any of the courts of the United States, must be given by written law,”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In re Neagle · Felker v. Turpin“As preliminary to any investigation of the merits of this motion, this court deems it proper to declare that it disclaims all jurisdiction not given by the constitution, or by the laws of the United States.”
3 later decisions 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.