Armstrong v. Carson's Executors’s Empirical Analysis
2 U.S. 302 · 1794
Citation profile
1 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 1913
1 federal appellate ·
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 Armstrong v. Hanlenbeck
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the said records and judicial proceedings, authenticated .as aforesaid, shall have such faith and credit given to them in every court, within the United States, as they have by law or usage in the courts of the State from whence the said records are or shall.be taken.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hilton v. Guyot
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.