Green v. Watkins’s Empirical Analysis
19 U.S. 260 · 1821
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2016 · most notably Gerling v. Baltimore Ohio R Co (1894), Nalle v. Oyster (1913)
12 federal appellate · 24 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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There is a material'distinction between the death of parties before judgment, and after judgment, and while a writ of error is depending. In the former case, all personal actions by the common law abate; and it required the aid of some statute, like that of the thirty-first section of the Judiciary Act of 1789, c. 20, to enable, the action to be prosecuted by or against the personal representative of the deceased, when the cause of action survived. * * * But in cases of writs of error upon judgments already rendered a different rule prevails. In personal actions, if the plaintiff in error dies before assignment of error, it is said 'that by the course of proceedings at common law the writ abates; but, if after assignment of errors, it is otherwise. In this latter case, the defendant may join in error, and .proceed to get the judgment affirmed, if not erroneous;. and he may then revive it against the representatives of the plaintiff. * * * ””
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.