Russell v. Clark's Executors’s Empirical Analysis
11 U.S. 69 · 1812
Citation profile
40 federal appellate · 7 district · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 142 later decisions (19 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2016 · most notably Consolidated Edison Co of New York v. National Labor Relations Board (1938), William Shields v. Robert R Barrow (1854)
40 federal appellate · 7 district · 26 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.
Relationships
Relies on De Butts v. Bacon
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 142 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We do ourselves the pleasure of introducing them to your correspondence, as a house on whose integrity and punctuality, the utmost dependence may be placed; they will write you the nature of their intentions, and you may be assured of their complying fully with any contract or engagements they may enter into with you,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lanusse v. Barker““If a claim is to be satisfied out of a fund which is accessible only by the aid of a court of chancery, application may be made in the first instance to that court, which will not require that the claim should be first established in a court of law.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““It is the duty of the individual who contracts with one man on the credit of another not to trust to ambiguous phrases and strained constructions, but to require an explicit and plain declaration of the obligation he is about to assume. ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.