Runyan v. Lessee of Coster’s Empirical Analysis
39 U.S. 122 · 1840
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 2 district · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions (13 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1976 · most notably National Bank v. Matthews (1878), Julian v. Central Trust Co. (1904)
12 federal appellate · 2 district · 22 state decisions — followed in 14 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 Childress v. Emory · Chappedelaine v. Dechenaux · Jackson ex dem. Winthrop v. Ingraham · Methodist Church v. Remington
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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Every power which a corporal ion exercises in another state depends for its validity upon the laws of the sovereignty in which it is exercised, and a corporation can make no valid contract without the sanction, express or implied, of such sovereignty.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Its residence in one State-creates no insuperable objection to its power of contracting in another.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.