Childress v. Emory’s Empirical Analysis
21 U.S. 642 · 1823
Citation profile
32 federal appellate · 11 district · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 100 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2017 · most notably Smith v. Sperling (1957), Mecom v. Fitzsimmons Drilling Co. (1931)
32 federal appellate · 11 district · 17 state decisions — followed in 12 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 Coal Company v. Blatchford · Mandeville v. Welch · Montalet v. Murray · Chappedelaine v. Dechenaux
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 100 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The point was expressly adjudged in Chappedelaine v. Dechenaux (4 Cranch 306) [2 L.Ed. 629], and, indeed, has not been seriously pressed on the present occasion.”
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.