Paine v. Pendleton’s Empirical Analysis
1856
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently March 1917
3 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.
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The object of the proceeding was to sell the lands for the payment of debts of the intestate. Not only the heirs, but all other persons interested in the lands, were required to be notified of the application and warned to appear, and show, cause against it.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Brickell v. Lightcap
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.