Townsley v. Sumrall’s Empirical Analysis
27 U.S. 170 · 1829
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 2 district · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1940 · most notably Swift v. Tyson (1842), Scudder v. Union National Bank (1875)
10 federal appellate · 2 district · 19 state decisions — followed in 13 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 Coolidge v. Payson · Almy v. Harris · Schieffelin v. Harvey · Wilson v. Clements
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.