Ford v. Surget’s Empirical Analysis
97 U.S. 594 · 1878
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 4 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions (15 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2019 · most notably Banco Nacional De Cuba v. Sabbatino (1964), Johnson v. Eisentrager (1950)
8 federal appellate · 4 district · 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.
Relationships
Relies on The Brig Amy Warwick the Schooner Crenshaw the Barque Hiawatha the Schooner Brilliante · Texas v. White · The Bridge Proprietors v. The Hoboken Company · Thorington v. Smith · Williams v. Bruffy
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]ny government, however violent and wrongful in its origin, must be considered a de facto government if it was in the full and actual exercise of sovereignty over a territory and people large enough for a nation.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. S. Kadic, on Her Own Behalf and on Behalf of Her Infant Sons Benjamin and Ognjen, Internationalna Iniciativa Zena Bosne I Hercegovine "Biser," and Zene Bosne I Hercegovine v. Radovan Karadzic, Jane Doe I, on Behalf of Herself and All Others Similarly Situated and Jane Doe Ii, on Behalf of Herself and as Administratrix of the Estate of Her Deceased Mother, and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated v. Radovan Karadzic · Kadic v. Karadžić
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.