Alexander and Other v. Pendleton’s Empirical Analysis
12 U.S. 462 · 1814
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions (10 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2008 · most notably Holland v. Challen (1884), Smith v. Adams (1889)
10 federal appellate · 10 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 Wood v. . Chapin · Bumpus v. Platner · Jackson, ex dem. Rounds v. M'Chesney
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““He was not bound to know that a private parol agreement existed which would control the possession. This trust, therefore, no more passed with the land to Harbshorne than would any other secret trust of which he had no knowledge.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Whayne v. Seamans
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.