James Caldwell v. John Taggart and Mary His Wife’s Empirical Analysis
29 U.S. 190 · 1830
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 6 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 1978 · most notably Posadas v. National City Bank (1936), In re Ayers (1887)
4 federal appellate · 6 district · 18 state decisions — followed in 10 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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ However numerous the persons interested in the subject of a suit, they must all he made parties plaintiffs or defendants, in order that a complete decree may he made, it being the constant aim of a court of equity to do complete justice by embracing the whole subject, deciding upon and settling the rights of all persons interested in the subject.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. The Hudson
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.