Lamar Executor v. Browne et al.’s Empirical Analysis
92 U.S. 187 · 1875
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 6 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions (17 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2023 · most notably Baker v. Carr (1962), Johnson v. Eisentrager (1950)
16 federal appellate · 6 district · 9 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 United States v. Padelford · Mrs. Alexander's Cotton · Haycraft v. United States
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.
“the proper character of the transaction was that of a hostile seizure made, if not flagrante, yet nondum eessante hello, regard being had both to the time, the place, and the person; and, consequently, that the Municipal Court had no jurisdiction to adjudge upon the subject, but that, if any thing was done amiss, recourse could only be had to the government for redress.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Dow v. Johnson
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.