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24 U.S. 237 · 1826
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 8 district · 43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 106 later decisions (9 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2021 · most notably United States v. Barnett (1964), Leather Manufacturers' Bank v. Morgan (1886)
23 federal appellate · 8 district · 43 state decisions — followed in 22 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.
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 106 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““For, although in the cases before stated, in which the special agreement has been executed or otherwise closed, a general indebitatus assumpsit may be maintained, it is nevertheless true that the special agreement may be given in evidence by the defendant for the purpose of lessening the quantum of damages to which the plaintiff is entitled.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Where the agreement embraces a number of distinct subjects, which admit of being separately executed and closed, it must be -taken distributively, each subject being considered as forming the matter of a separate agreement after it is so closed.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.