Lidderdale's Executors v. Executor of Robinson’s Empirical Analysis
25 U.S. 594 · 1827
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 7 district · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions (11 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1967 · most notably Pearlman v. Reliance Insurance (1962), American Surety Co of New York v. Bethlehem Nat Bank of Bethlehem Pa (1941)
4 federal appellate · 7 district · 27 state decisions — followed in 16 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 Lenox v. Prout · Gwathmeys v. Ragland
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This fully affirms the right to succeed to the legal standing of their principal ; and, after establishing that principle, it is going but one step farther to consider that as done which the surety lias a right to have done in his favor, and thus to sustain the substitution, without an actual assignment.””
2 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.