Richard Drummond Surviving Partner of Charles Drummond v. Executors of George Prestman’s Empirical Analysis
25 U.S. 515 · 1827
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2006 · most notably Moses v. United States (1897), Grommes v. St. Paul Trust Co. (1893)
12 federal appellate · 28 state decisions — followed in 12 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 Russell v. Clark's Executors · Grant v. Naylor · Lawrason v. Mason · Respublica v. Davis
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“was certainly competent to prove a fact [that] every judgment is competent to prove between any parties, to wit, that such a judgment was obtained between certain parties, on a certain cause of action”
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.