Dixon's Executors v. Ramsay's Executors’s Empirical Analysis
7 U.S. 319 · 1806
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 9 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions (9 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2010 · most notably Bank of Augusta v. Earle (1839), United States v. Union Pacific Railroad (1878)
11 federal appellate · 9 district · 10 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 Noonan v. Bradley · Kerr v. Devisees of a Moon
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“No man can sue in the courts of any country, whatever his rights may be, unless in conformity with the rules prescribed by the laws of that country.”
2 later decisions 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.