Edward Livingston v. Benjamin Story’s Empirical Analysis
36 U.S. 351 · 1837
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 2 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1965 · most notably McNutt v. General Motors Acceptance Corp. (1936), Dred Scott v. John F a Sandford (1856)
8 federal appellate · 2 district · 11 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 Brown v. Keene · Hughes v. Edwards · Jackson v. Ashton · Bingham v. Cabot · Edward Livingston v. Benjamin Story
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The creditor .does not become owner of the pledged immovable by failure of payment at the stated time; any clause to the contrary is null, and in this case it is only lawful for him to sue his debtor before the court in order to obtain a sentence [judgment] against him, and to cause the objects which have been put in his hands in pledge to be seized and sold.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Conklin v. Caffall
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.