Reynolds v. Douglass’s Empirical Analysis
37 U.S. 497 · 1838
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1987 · most notably Davis v. Wells (1881), Terry v. Tubman (1875)
7 federal appellate · 18 state decisions — followed in 11 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.
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Such notice of. acceptance need not he in any set form, or even in writing, but may he inferred hy the jury from the facts and circumstances which shall warrant such inference.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Davis v. Wells · Hart v. Minchen
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.