James Jackson v. John Clark’s Empirical Analysis
26 U.S. 628 · 1828
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 1910
2 federal appellate · 3 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.
Relationships
Relies on Hoofnagle v. Anderson · Kerr v. Watts · Taylor's v. Myers · M'Arthur v. Porter's Lessee
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“That in case the quantity of good land on the southeast side of the Ohio, upon the waters of the Cumberland River, and between the' Green River and Tennessee, which has been reserved bylaw for the Virginia troops on the Continental establishment, should, from the North Carolina line bearing in further, upon, the Cumherland lands than was expected, prove insufficient for their legal bounties, the deficiency should be made up to the said troops in good lands to be laid off between the rivers Scioto and Little Miami on the northwest side, of the River Ohio, in such proportions as have been engaged to them by the laws of Virginia.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Fussell v. Gregg
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.