Bostwick v. Brinkerhoff’s Empirical Analysis
106 U.S. 3 · 1882
Citation profile
119 federal appellate · 7 district · 43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 262 later decisions (34 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2025 · most notably Collins v. Miller (1920), McGourkey v. Toledo & Ohio Central Railway Co. (1892)
119 federal appellate · 7 district · 43 state decisions — followed in 18 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 Forgay v. Conrad · Paulina Whiting v. The Bank of the United States · Board of Commissioners of Tippecanoe County v. Lucas Treasurer · Thomson v. Dean
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 262 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The rule is well settled and of long standing that a judgment or decree to be final * * * must terminate the litigation between the parties on the merits of the case, so that if there should be an affirmance here, the court below would have nothing to do but to execute the judgment or decree it had already rendered.””
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“disposes of the whole case on its merits.”
4 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.