Washington, Alexandria, & Georgetown Steam Packet Co. v. Sickles’s Empirical Analysis
51 U.S. 419 · 1850
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 1942
2 federal appellate · 1 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 The President Directors and Company of the Bank of the United States v. Dandridge · Fleckner v. President Directors and Company of the Bank of the United States · Perkins Hart Executor of Hart · Mechanics' Bank of Alexandria v. The Bank of Columbia · Bank of Columbia v. Patterson's
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘Unless there be some express stipulation to the contrary, whenever an entire sum is to be paid for the entire work, the performance or service is a condition precedent; being one consideration and one debt, it cannot be divided.’ ””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The agreement on the part of the plaintiffs is, that the defendants shall use their machine for a certain time, in consideration of which defendants are to pay a certain sum of money. It is true that the exact sum is not stated ; but the mode of rendering it certain is fully set forth. It is one entire contract, which cannot be divided into a thousand, as the plaintiffs imagine.”
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.