Sears v. Patrick’s Empirical Analysis
1840
Citation profile
32
cited by 32 later decisions
1
cited 1 times by the Supreme Court
11
states following
March 1960
most recently cited
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1960 · most notably The State of Pennsylvania v. The Wheeling and Belmont Brideg Company William Otterson and George Croft (1851), People v. North River Sugar Refining Co. (1890)
27 state decisions — followed in 11 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.
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.