Sadler v. Langham’s Empirical Analysis
1859
Citation profile
2 district · 73 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 77 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2022 · most notably Kelo v. City of New London (2005), Head v. Amoskeag Manufacturing Co. (1885)
2 district · 73 state decisions — followed in 15 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 2 Johns. Ch. 161 - Gardner v. Trustees of Village of Newburgh · The Bank of Hamilton v. The Lessee of Ambrose Dudley Jun · Ikelheimer v. Chapman's Adm'rs · Bradley v. New-York & New-Haven Rail-Road · Backus v. Lebanon
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 77 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Every officer in the government, from the executive to the humblest magistrate, is charged, to the extent of his sphere, with the preservation of constitutional rights.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.