Lessee v. Wendell’s Empirical Analysis
18 U.S. 293 · 1820
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 2 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions (12 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2009 · most notably Hunnicutt v. Peyton (1880), Smith v. McIver (1824)
5 federal appellate · 2 district · 13 state decisions — followed in 10 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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“••But there are causes in which a grant is absolutely void, as whore the state lias no title to the thing grunted, or where the officer had no authority to issue the grant. In such cases the validity of the grant is necessarily examinable at law.””
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.