Henry v. Sargeant’s Empirical Analysis
1843
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2005
20 state decisions — followed in 12 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 Inhabitants of Montville v. Haughton
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is said that the court will not notice the penal laws, or the revenue laws, of another State. But this principle is not applicable to this case, nor can it be true to that extent. There is no attempt to enforce the penal or revenue laws of Vermont by this action. If there were, it would be held that this was not to be done through the instrumentality of the courts of another State; as, for instance, if the attempt was to collect a tax assessed in Vermont by a suit here . . .””
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.