Henderson v. Wadsworth’s Empirical Analysis
115 U.S. 264 · 1885
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 4 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions (9 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1999 · most notably Walter v. Northeastern Railroad (1893), Gibson v. Shufeldt (1887)
7 federal appellate · 4 district · 6 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 Dennick v. Railroad Co. · Market Company v. Hoffman · Pleasants v. Fant · Baldwin v. Hale · Pollard v. Bailey
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.
“where a judgment or decree against a defendant, who pleads no counterclaim or set-off, and asks no affirmative relief, is brought by him to this court by writ of error or appeal, the amount in dispute on which, the jurisdiction depends is the amount of the judgment or decree which is sought to be reversed,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gibson v. Shufeldt“neither co-defendants nor co-plaintiffs can unite their separate and distinct interests for the purpose of making up the amount necessary to give this court, jurisdiction upon writ of error or appeal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gibson v. Shufeldt““An obligation is contracted in solido on the part of the debtors when each of thorn is obliged for the whole, hut so that a payment by one liberates them all.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Busey v. Smith
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.