Doe Lessee of Lewis and Wife v. McFarland’s Empirical Analysis
13 U.S. 151 · 1815
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently April 1938
8 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 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.
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It has been decided in this court that letters testamentary give to the ¡executor no authority to sue for the personal estate of the testator, out of the jurisdiction of the power by which those letters are granted. But this decision has never been understood to extend to a suit for lands devised to an executor. In such case the executor sues as devisee.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Higgins v. Eaton
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.