Lawrence E. Sexton v. Leopold Louis Dreyfus’s Empirical Analysis
219 U.S. 339 · 1902
Citation profile
179 federal appellate · 81 district · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 675 later decisions (20 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2025 · most notably United States v. Ron Pair Enterprises, Inc. (1989), Vanston Bondholders Protective Committee v. Green (1946)
179 federal appellate · 81 district · 22 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Josiah Coder v. William Arts · Merrill v. National Bank of Jacksonville · Hiscock v. Varick Bank of New York · Benjamin Story v. Louisa Livingston
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 675 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“For more than a century and a half the theory of the English bankrupt system has been that everything stops at a certain date. Interest was not computed beyond the date of the commission.”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“less . . . interest accrued after the filing of the petition”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Romero v. Romero
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.