Love v. Simms's lessee’s Empirical Analysis
22 U.S. 515 · 1824
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2020
7 state decisions
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This [power of attorney] was supposed to be virtually revoked by the prior conveyance of the same land. . . . And this, on general principles, is unquestionably correct. Whatever liabilities, for damages or otherwise, Donaldson [owner] might have incurred by not revoking the power by due notice, it is unquestionable that a power must cease and determine when there is nothing left for it to act upon.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Buchanan v. Johnson
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.