Suydam v. Williamson’s Empirical Analysis
61 U.S. 427 · 1857
Citation profile
62 federal appellate · 3 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 119 later decisions (21 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 1991 · most notably Galloway v. United States (1943), Baltimore & Carolina Line, Inc. v. Redman (1935)
62 federal appellate · 3 district · 16 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 Charles Williamson and Catharine His Wife v. Joseph Berry · United States v. Eliason · Bennett v. Butterworth · John Graham v. Alexander Bayne
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 119 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““And we also say tliat this court cannot so far depart from the settled practice and regular course of proceeding as to give an effect to the paper which neither its contents nor terms would warrant.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““The rule is that, whenever the error is apparent on the record, it is open to revision, whether it bo made to appear by bill of exceptions or in any other manner.””
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.