M'Keen v. Delancy's Lessee’s Empirical Analysis
9 U.S. 22 · 1809
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 3 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions (8 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2016 · most notably Ex parte United States (1916), Burgess v. Seligman (1882)
6 federal appellate · 3 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.
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In construing the statutes of a state on which land titles depend, infinite mischief would ensue should this court observe a different rule from that which has been long established in the state.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Reed v. Munn · Maharry v. Eatman““Under the act of Pennsylvania of 1715, which requires a deed to be acknowledged before a justice of the peace of the county where the lands lie, it had been the long-established practice before the year 1775 to acknowledge deeds before a justice of the Supreme Court of the province of Pennsylvania. And although the act of 1715 does not authorize such a practice, yet as it has prevailed, it is to be considered as a correct exposition of the statute.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.