Van Ness v. Forrest’s Empirical Analysis
12 U.S. 31 · 1814
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1971
7 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 Sheehy v. Mandeville and Jamesson · Livingston v. Dorgenois · Bauer v. Roth
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“can no more be brought in the name of the company than if it had been given to a person not a member ?”
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.