Horn v. Lockhart’s Empirical Analysis
84 U.S. 570 · 1873
Citation profile
85 federal appellate · 15 district · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 233 later decisions (25 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2022 · most notably Newman-Green, Inc. v. Alfonzo-Larrain (1989), Grupo Dataflux v. Atlas Global Group, L. P. (2004)
85 federal appellate · 15 district · 19 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.
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 233 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he question always is, or should be, when objection is taken to the jurisdiction of the court by reason of the citizenship of some of the parties, whether ... they are indispensable parties, for if their interests are severable and a decree without prejudice to their rights can be made, the jurisdiction of the court should be retained and the suit dismissed as to them.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the same general form of government, the same general law for the administration of justice and the protection of private rights, which had existed in the States prior to the rebellion, remained during its continuance and afterwards. As far as the acts of the States did not impair or tend to impair the supremacy of the national authority, or the just rights of the citizens, under the Constitution, they are in general to be treated as valid and binding.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ketchum v. Buckley · Keith v. Clark“The-existence of a state'of insurrection-and war did not loosen the bonds of soc.iety, or do away with civil government or the regular ' administration of the laws. Order was to be preserved, police regulations maintained, crime prosecuted; property • protected, contracts enforced,, marriages celebrated, estates settled,' and the transfer and descent of property regulated, precisely as in time of peace. No one, that we are aware of, seriously questions the validity of judicial or legislative acts in .the insurrec-. tionary States touching .these and kindred subjects, where they were not hostile in their purpose or mode of enforcement to the authority of the national government, and did. not impair the rights of citizens under the Constitution.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Williams v. Bruffy
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.