Sexton v. Wheaton’s Empirical Analysis
21 U.S. 229 · 1823
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 7 district · 66 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 120 later decisions (15 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2016 · most notably Asgrow Seed Company v. Winterboer (1995), Jones v. Clifton (1879)
8 federal appellate · 7 district · 66 state decisions — followed in 28 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from District of Columbia District Court)
Relationships
Relies on 3 Johns. Ch. 481 - Reade v. Livingston · Anderson v. Roberts · Mattingly v. Nye · Quarles v. Lacy
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 120 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It would seem to be a consequence of that absolute power which a man possesses over his own property, that he may make any disposition of it which does not interfere with the existing rights of others, and such disposition, if it be fair and real, will be valid. The limitations on this power are those only which are prescribed by law.”
4 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.