Henderson v. Poindexter's Lessee’s Empirical Analysis
25 U.S. 530 · 1827
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions (8 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2019
7 state decisions
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It follows, that Spanish grants, made after the treaty of peace [September 1783], can have no intrinsic validity, and the holders must depend for their titles on the laws of the United States.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]f, on the whole matter, the jury should have a reasonable doubt, then their verdict should be for the defendant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Johnson v. People
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.