William Early v. John Doe’s Empirical Analysis
57 U.S. 610 · 1853
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 4 district · 44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2017 · most notably Graham v. du Pont (1923), Guaranty Trust & Safe Deposit Co. v. Green Cove Springs & Melrose Railroad (1891)
4 federal appellate · 4 district · 44 state decisions — followed in 21 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 Thatcher v. Powell · Williams v. Peyton's Lessee · Anna Mason v. Joseph N. Fearson · McClung v. Ross
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.
““So there were eleven insertions of the notice in the newspaper in different weeks (making, with the first, twelve) after the expiration of the week from the first insertion, and the point to be settled is, whether the statute means that twelve insertions in successive weeks is sufficient notice, without respect to the number of days in twelve weeks. We do not doubt if the statute had been ‘ once in each- week for twelve successive weeks ’ . . . that it might very well be concluded that twelve notices in different successive weeks, though the last insertion of the notice for sale was on the day of sale, was sufficient.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Tidd v. Grimes
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.