Blyew v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
80 U.S. 581 · 1871
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 1 district · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions (11 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably Civil Rights Cases (1883), Georgia v. Rachel (1966)
20 federal appellate · 1 district · 17 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 William Marbury v. James Madison
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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he words 'case' and 'cause' are constantly used as synonyms in statutes ..., each meaning a proceeding in court, a suit, or action.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“any law, statute, ordinance, regulation or custom to the contrary notwithstanding,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Civil Rights Cases
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.