Patterson v. Gaines’s Empirical Analysis
47 U.S. 550 · 1848
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 6 district · 56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 99 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2009 · most notably Securities & Exchange Commission v. Torr (1937), Grant Bros. Construction Co. v. United States (1914)
12 federal appellate · 6 district · 56 state decisions — followed in 26 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 Mima Queen and Childs for Freedom v. Hepburn · Phillips v. Gregg
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 99 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In the name of God, I, Daniel Clark, of New Orleans, do make this my last will and testament: Imprimis. I order that all my just debts be paid. Second. I leave and bequeath unto my mother, Mary Clark, now of Germantown, in the State of Pennsylvania, all the estate, whether real or personal, which I may die possessed of. Third. I hereby nominate my friends, Pichard Pelf and Beverly Chew, my executors, with power to settle everything relating to my estate.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““We are Inclined to adopt it as a general rule that an answer not under oath is to he considered merely as a denial of the allegations in the bill, analogous to the general issue at law, so as to put the complainant to the proof of such allegations.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Tillinghast v. Chace
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.