Wayman v. Southard’s Empirical Analysis
23 U.S. 1 · 1825
Citation profile
136 federal appellate · 55 district · 195 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 670 later decisions (105 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2026 · most notably Erie Co v. Tompkins (1938), Mistretta v. United States (1989)
136 federal appellate · 55 district · 195 state decisions — followed in 36 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 Robinson v. Campbell · Palmer v. Allen
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 670 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““-The jurisdiction of a court is not exhausted by the rendition of its judgment, hut continues until that judgment .shall be satisfied.””
15 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he legislature makes, the executive executes, and the judiciary construes the law.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he line has not been exactly drawn which separates those important subjects, which must be entirely regulated by the legislature itself, from those of less interest, in which a general provision may be made, and power given to those who are to act under such general provisions to fill up the details.”
7 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.