The Town of Pawlet v. Daniel Clark’s Empirical Analysis
13 U.S. 292 · 1815
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 2 district · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions (11 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2025 · most notably Everson v. Board of Education (1947), Trustees of Dartmouth College v. Woodward (1819)
5 federal appellate · 2 district · 34 state decisions — followed in 19 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.
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * The constitution intended to secure an impartial tribunal for the decision of causes arising from the grants of different states; and it supposed, that a state tribunal might not stand indifferent in a controversy where the claims of its own sovereign were in conflict with those of another sovereign. * * * ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“peculiar rights and privileges, not as a corporation, but as an ecclesiastical institution under the patronage of the state.”
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.