Worthington v. Mason’s Empirical Analysis
101 U.S. 149 · 1879
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 1955 · most notably Phænix Life Insurance v. Raddin (1887), Union Ins Co Philadelphia v. Smith (1888)
21 federal appellate · 1 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 Beaver v. Taylor
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““As we understand the principles on .which judgments here are reviewed by -writ of error, that error must appear by some ruling on the pleadings, or on a state of facts presented to this court. Those facts apart from the pleadings can only be shown here by a special verdict, an agreed statement duly signed and submitted to the court below, or by bill of exceptions.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“There is in no part of this bill of exceptions any statement, of the evidence. There is no statement that any evidence was offered, or that any was objected to. With the exception of the reference to it in the charge of the court, there is ncfthing to show what was prpvbd, or what any of the evidence tended to prove. The prayers for instruction, therefore, may have been hypothetical and wholly unwarranted by any testimony before the jury.”
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.