Welch v. Mandeville’s Empirical Analysis
14 U.S. 233 · 1816
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2018 · most notably Sprint Communications Co. v. APCC Services, Inc. (2008), Phœnix Insurance v. Erie & Western Transportation Co. (1886)
7 federal appellate · 27 state decisions — followed in 16 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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[c]ourts of law, following ... the rules of equity, now take notice of assignments of choses in action, and exert themselves to afford them every support and protection. ...”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“now consider an assignment of a chose in action as substantially valid, only preserving, in certain cases, the form of an action commenced in the name of the assignor.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“disregarded the rigid strictness of the common law, and protected the rights of the assignee of choses in action,”
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.