Lenox v. Roberts’s Empirical Analysis
15 U.S. 373 · 1817
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1926 · most notably Independent Wireless Telegraph Co. v. Radio Corp. (1926), Curran v. Arkansas (1853)
14 state decisions — followed in 11 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 The London Packet
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“as the act of incorporation had expired, no action could be-maintained at law bv the bank itself.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hayward v. Andrews
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.