Jackson v. Ashton’s Empirical Analysis
36 U.S. 229 · 1837
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2005
10 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 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 Hugh Wallace v. Mary Wormley · Stephen Harding v. Asa Handy · Wendell v. Van Rensselaer · Fowler v. Shearer · Underhill v. Van Cortlandt
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A court of chancery will often refuse to enforce a contract, specifically, when it would also refuse to annul it.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gabrielson v. Hogan
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.