McLemore v. Powell’s Empirical Analysis
25 U.S. 554 · 1827
Citation profile
1 district · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1974 · most notably Benjamin v. Hillard (1859), Creath's Administrator v. Sims (1847)
1 district · 19 state decisions — followed in 14 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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In general, the indorsor, by paying the bill, has a complete power to reinstate himself in the possession and ownership of the bill, and thus to entitle himself to a personal remedy on the instrument against all antecedent jiarties.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Shall v. Newberry
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.