Amory v. Amory’s Empirical Analysis
95 U.S. 186 · 1877
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 9 district · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 88 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1969 · most notably Mecom v. Fitzsimmons Drilling Co. (1931), Texas & Pacific Railway Co. v. Cox (1892)
19 federal appellate · 9 district · 25 state decisions — followed in 15 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 — not a real decline.
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 88 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““From the language hero employed, the court may properly infer that, as persons, the plaintiffs in error were not citizens of Now Jersey, as was the defendant.” ,”
3 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.