Field v. Holland’s Empirical Analysis
10 U.S. 8 · 1810
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 7 district · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2016 · most notably In Re Peterson (1920), Winship v. the Bank of the United States (1831)
14 federal appellate · 7 district · 23 state decisions — followed in 17 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 Auld v. Norwood
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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It being equitable that the whole debt should be paid, it cannot be inequitable to «extinguish, first those debts for which, the security is most precarious.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““It was completely in the discretion of the court to ascertain this fact for themselves, if the testimony enabled them to ascertain it, or, if it did not, to refer the question either to a jury or to auditors. There was consequently no error either in directing this issue or in discharging it.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Pepper v. Addicks
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.