Memphis v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
97 U.S. 300 · 1877
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1943 · most notably State of New Hampshire v. State of Louisiana State of New York (1883), Town of Capitol Heights v. Steiner (1924)
10 federal appellate · 5 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.
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A mandamus to collect a tax for the payment of a judgment, or a mandamus to pay a judgment, is a process in execution, and nobody has ever questioned the power of a court to control its own final process.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hair v. Burnell · Evans v. Yost
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.