United States v. Cruikshank’s Empirical Analysis
92 U.S. 542 · 1875
Citation profile
561 federal appellate · 205 district · 489 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,943 later decisions (191 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2026 · most notably Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. (1970), Monroe v. Pape (1961)
561 federal appellate · 205 district · 489 state decisions — followed in 45 states
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. A case is still cited after being overruled — to note the reversal, distinguish it, or in dissent. 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. Hudson · Marsh v. Whitmore · Alderman v. People · State v. Parker
Cited together with United States v. Hess · United States v. Harris · 'The Ku-Klux Cases' Yarbrough · Logan v. United States · Slaughter-House Cases the Butchers' Benevolent Association of New Orleans v. The Crescent City Live
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 1,943 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The object of the Indictment is, first, to furnish the accused with such a descripUon of the charge against him as will enable him to make Ms defense, and avail himself of his conviction or acquittal for protection against a further prosecution for the same cause; and, second, to inform the court of the facts alleged, so that It may decide whether they are sufficient in law to support a conviction, if one should be had.””
56 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The Fourteenth Amendment prohibits a State from denying to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws; but this provision does not add anything to the rights which one citizen has under the Constitution against another. The equality of the rights of citizens is a principle of republicanism. Every republican government is in duty bound to protect all its citizens in the enjoyment of this principle, if within its power. That duty was originally assumed by the States; and it still remains there. The only obligation resting upon the United States is to see that the States do not deny the right. This the Amendment guaranties [sic], but no more.” 92 U.S. at 555 .”
19 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The very idea of a government, republican in form, implies a right on the part of its citizens to meet peaceably for consultation in respect to public affairs and to petition for a redress of grievances.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.