Himely v. Rose’s Empirical Analysis
9 U.S. 313 · 1809
Citation profile
43 federal appellate · 2 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 86 later decisions (14 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2024 · most notably Briggs v. Pennsylvania Railroad (1948), Ex Parte Tobias Watkins (1830)
43 federal appellate · 2 district · 13 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 Rush v. Parker
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 86 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“goes with the principal, as the fruit with the tree.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“, “A decree having been formerly rendered in this cause, the court is now to determine whether that decree has been executed according to its true intent and meaning.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Nothing is before this court but what is subsequent to the mandate.”
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.