Doe Ex Demise of William Patterson v. Elisha Winn’s Empirical Analysis
1831
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 6 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1971 · most notably Ferguson v. Georgia (1961), Washingtonsouthern Nav Co v. Baltimore & Philadelphia Steamboat Co (1924)
6 federal appellate · 6 district · 10 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 Lessee of Weston v. Stammers
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"These statutes being passed before the emigration of our ancestors, being applicable to our situation, and in amendment of the law, constitute a part of our common law." Patterson v. Winn, 30 U.S. (5 Pet.) 233, at 241 , 8 L.Ed. 108 (1831).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.