Van Weel v. Winston’s Empirical Analysis
115 U.S. 228 · 1885
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 2 district · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 89 later decisions (9 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2025 · most notably Swift Company v. United States (1905), Shappirio v. Goldberg (1904)
27 federal appellate · 2 district · 26 state decisions — followed in 14 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 Oelrichs v. Spain · James Boyce's Executors v. Felix Grundy · United States v. Union Pacific Railroad · May v. Le Claire · Ambler v. Choteau
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 89 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Mere words, in and of themselves, and even as qualifying adjectives of more specific charges, are not sufficient grounds of equity jurisdiction, unless the transactions to which they refer are such as indheir essential nature .constitute a fraud or a breach of trust, for which a court of chancery can -give relief.”
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.