Rachel Canter v. The American Insurance Company’s Empirical Analysis
28 U.S. 307 · 1830
Citation profile
36 federal appellate · 3 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 87 later decisions (21 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 1996 · most notably Behrens v. Pelletier (1996), Sprage v. Ticonic Nat Bank (1939)
36 federal appellate · 3 district · 5 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 The Apollon · The Santa Maria · The Palmyra Depau · Chace
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 87 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““As to costs and: expenses, we see no error in the allowance of them in the Circuit Court. They are not matters positively limited by law, but allowed in the exercise of a sound discretion of the court. And, besides, it may be added that no appeal lies from a decree respecting costs and expenses.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“very great delays, and oppressive expenses,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Behrens v. Pelletier
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.