Josias Pennington v. Lyman Gibson’s Empirical Analysis
57 U.S. 65 · 1853
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 5 district · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 91 later decisions (15 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2011 · most notably Hilton v. Guyot (1895), Wisconsin v. Pelican Insurance (1888)
11 federal appellate · 5 district · 28 state decisions — followed in 18 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 Hampton v. M'Connel · James D'Arcy v. Morris Ketchum Thomas Rogers and Edward Bement Copartners Trading Under the Name and Firm of Ketchum Rogers and Bement · Mills v. Duryee · Hopkins v. Lee
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 91 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It might very well be error to allow the action of debt upon a decretal order of the chancery, and yet perfectly regular to sustain such an action upon the final decree. The former is subject to revision and modification, the latter is conclusive upon the rights of the parties.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Israel v. Israel
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.