Rankin & Schatzell v. Scott’s Empirical Analysis
25 U.S. 177 · 1827
Citation profile
82 federal appellate · 12 district · 63 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 224 later decisions (12 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2019 · most notably United States 77-1359 v. Kimbell Foods Inc (1979), United States v. City of New Britain (1954)
82 federal appellate · 12 district · 63 state decisions — followed in 21 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 Winn's Heirs v. Jackson · Moliere's Lessee v. Noe · Graff v. Smith's Administrators · Vredenbergh v. Morris
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 224 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The principle is believed to be universal, that a prior lien gives a prior claim, which is entitled to pri- or satisfaction, out of the subject it binds, unless the lien be intrinsically defective, or be displaced by some act of the party holding it, which shall postpone him, in a court of law or equity, to a subsequent claimant.” 1”
21 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.