Meriwether Clark v. Andrew Smith’s Empirical Analysis
38 U.S. 195 · 1839
Citation profile
77 federal appellate · 35 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 259 later decisions (60 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2018 · most notably Guaranty Trust Co. v. York (1945), Great-West Life & Annuity Insurance v. Knudson (2002)
77 federal appellate · 35 district · 9 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 Fletcher v. Peck · Meigs and al v. M'Clung's Lessee
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 259 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“there is inherent in the Courts of Equity a jurisdiction to ... give effect to the policy of the legislature.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The state legislatures certainly have no authority to prescribe the forms- and modes of proceeding in the courts of the United States; but having created a right, and at the same time prescribed the remedy to enforce it, if the remedy prescribed is substantially consistent with the ordinary modes of proceeding on the chancery side of the federal courts, no reason exists why it should not be pursued in the same form as it is in the state courts.””
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““ That any person having both the legal title to and possession of land may institute a suit against any other person setting up a claim thereto, and if the complainant shall be able to establish his title to such land, the defendant shall be decreed to release his claim thereto and pay the complainant his costs, unless the defendant shall by answer disclaim all title to such lands, and offer to give such release to the complainant.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Holland v. Challen · Scott v. Neely
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.