Jacob Mumma v. The Potomac Company’s Empirical Analysis
33 U.S. 281 · 1834
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 2 district · 47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 130 later decisions (9 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 1994 · most notably Central Railroad Banking Co of Georgia v. Pettus (1885), Scovill v. Thayer (1881)
28 federal appellate · 2 district · 47 state decisions — followed in 19 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.
Relationships
Relies on Trustees of Dartmouth College v. Woodward · Fletcher v. Peck · Dash v. Van Kleeck · Terrett v. Taylor
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 130 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“force upon it a perpetuity of existence contrary to public policy, and the nature and objects of its charter.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The dissolution of the corporation, under the acts of Virginia and Maryland, cannot, in any just sense, be considered within the clause of the Constitution of the United States as impairing the obligation of the contracts of the company by those states, any more than the death of a private person can be said to impair the obligation of his contracts.””
1 later decision 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.