The Monte Allegre’s Empirical Analysis
22 U.S. 616 · 1824
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 3 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 1957 · most notably Savage v. Jones (1912), Hoffeld v. United States (1902)
17 federal appellate · 3 district · 13 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.
Relationships
Relies on Douglass's Lessee v. Sanderson · January v. Goodman · The Monte Allegre · Sherwood v. Salmon
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When one of two innocent parties must suffer, he to whom is imputable negligence; or want of employment of all th'e means within his reach to guard against the injury, must bear the loss.””
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.