Pennington v. Coxe’s Empirical Analysis
1804
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions (9 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2026 · most notably United States v. American Trucking Associations (1940), Knowlton v. Moore (1900)
10 federal appellate · 3 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.
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““That a law is the best expositor of itself: that every part, of an act is to be taken into view, for the purpose of discovering the mind of the legislature, and that the details of one part may contain regulations restricting the extent of general expressions used in another part of the same act, — are among those plain rules laid down by common sense for the exposition of statutes which have been uniformly acknowledged.””
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.