Beckwith v. Bean’s Empirical Analysis
98 U.S. 266 · 1878
Citation profile
36 federal appellate · 8 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 89 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2014 · most notably Moulor v. American Life Insurance (1884), Chappell v. United States (1896)
36 federal appellate · 8 district · 24 state decisions — followed in 13 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.
Relationships
Relies on Bank of Columbia v. Okely · Lincoln v. Claflin · Beaver v. Taylor · Roth v. Smith
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 89 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“not merely to insure punishment to the guilty, but to insure protection to the innocent, [for without it] every one would hold his liberty at the mercy of the government.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent““Verbal confessions or admissions, made in the presence of the witness alone, constitute, it is true, very unsatisfactory evidence, partly because of the facility with which they may be fabricated. It is, therefore, to be received with great caution;”
1 later decision 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.