The Alexandria Canal Company v. Francis Swann’s Empirical Analysis
46 U.S. 83 · 1847
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 5 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions (8 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2013 · most notably Allied-Bruce Terminix Cos., Inc. v. Dobson (1995), Red Cross Line v. Atlantic Fruit Co. (1924)
17 federal appellate · 5 district · 4 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 Bank of Columbia v. Patterson's · Rogers v. Bradshaw · Calking v. Baldwin · Stowell v. Flagg
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a trial by arbitrators, appointed by the court with the consent of both parties, is one of the modes of prosecuting a suit to judgment as well established and as fully warranted by law as a trial by jury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“not [a question] upon the rights of the respective parties, but upon the mode of proceeding by which they were determined,”
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.