French v. Lighty’s Empirical Analysis
1857
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently March 1992
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.
Relationships
Relies on In re Smith
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We have found that the act providing for contested elections gives no appeal to the Supreme Court, that the act regulating the practice in civil suits only gives an appeal in the cases embraced in that statute, that the act relative to practice in criminal cases only gives an appeal in that class of cases, and that no other statute gives this court jurisdiction of that under consideration; while it is conceded that the court cannot entertain it, unless empowered to do so by statute.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Livesley v. Landon“Revised Statutes, p. 269, ... gives an appeal in certain cases to the Circuit Court, but to none higher”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.