United States v. Reeseās Empirical Analysis
92 U.S. 214 Ā· 1875
Citation profile
180 federal appellate Ā· 63 district Ā· 307 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 867 later decisions (99 by the Supreme Court) ā most recently April 2025 Ā· most notably Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. (1970), Kolender v. Lawson (1983)
180 federal appellate Ā· 63 district Ā· 307 state decisions ā followed in 45 states
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 ā not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on M'Culloch v. State of Maryland Ā· United States v. Hudson Ā· United States v. Hartwell Ā· Legal Tender Cases Knox v. Lee Parker Ā· Edward Prigg v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each ā the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 867 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
āIt would certainly be dangerous if the legislature could set a net large enough to catch all possible offenders, and leave it to the courts to step inside and say who could be rightfully detained, and who should be set at large. This would, to some extent, substitute the judicial for the legislative department of the government.ā
80 later decisions quote this exact passage Ā· from the majorityāThe Fifteenth Amendment does not confer the right of suffrage upon anyone.ā
19 later decisions quote this exact passage Ā· from the majorityāCongress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.ā
9 later decisions quote this exact passage Ā· from the majority
How this case has been treated ā 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.