John Conard v. The Atlantic Insurance Company New York’s Empirical Analysis
26 U.S. 386 · 1828
Citation profile
81 federal appellate · 31 district · 62 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 279 later decisions (44 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2014 · most notably Waterman v. Mackenzie (1891), United States v. Stowell (1890)
81 federal appellate · 31 district · 62 state decisions — followed in 23 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 United States v. Fisher · The General Smith · United States v. Hooe Et Al. · Thelusson v. Smith
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 279 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * it has never yet been decided by this court, that the priority of the United States will divest a specific lien, attached to a thing, whether it be accompanied by possession or not.””
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.