Cornthwait et al’s Empirical Analysis
14 U.S. 440 · 1816
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 8 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2020 · most notably Carnegie Steel Company v. Cambria Iron Company (1902), Walden v. Skinner (1879)
13 federal appellate · 8 district · 7 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 Clarke v. Rosenda · Gallier v. Garcia · Rightor v. Phelps · Mann v. Curtis
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"If a judgment be confessed under a clear mistake, a court of law will set that judgment aside, if application be made * * * while the judgment is in its power.””
3 later decisions 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.