Fairfax's Devisee v. Hunter's Lesseeās Empirical Analysis
11 U.S. 603 Ā· 1813
Citation profile
23 federal appellate Ā· 9 district Ā· 35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 103 later decisions (22 by the Supreme Court) ā most recently December 2018 Ā· most notably Northern Securities Company v. United States (1904), Terrace v. Thompson (1923)
23 federal appellate Ā· 9 district Ā· 35 state decisions ā followed in 18 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 ā not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on McLeod v. Ellis Ā· Pierce v. Frace Ā· Livingston v. Dorgenois Ā· Front Street Cable Railway Co. v. Johnson
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each ā the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 103 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
āThe common law, therefore, ought not to be deemed to be repealed, unless the language of a statute be clear and explicit for this purpose.ā
5 later decisions quote this exact passage Ā· from the majority
How this case has been treated ā 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.