John Clay v. Abraham Smith’s Empirical Analysis
28 U.S. 411 · 1830
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1936 · most notably Cole v. Cunningham (1890), Newburyport Water Company v. City of Newburyport (1904)
3 federal appellate · 22 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.
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“as well his person as his future effects,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Electric Co. v. Dow
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.