Wright v. Denn Page’s Empirical Analysis
23 U.S. 204 · 1825
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently March 1995 · most notably Travers v. Reinhardt (1907), Smith v. Furbish (1894)
4 federal appellate · 24 state decisions — followed in 15 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 Frey v. Leeper · Lessee of Burkart v. Bucher
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“plain, reasonable, and certain expressions of intention found on the face [of the statute],”
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.