Winchester Trustee v. Heiskell’s Empirical Analysis
119 U.S. 450 · 1886
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions (13 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1968 · most notably Heiser v. Woodruff (1946), Brown v. Gerdes (1944)
24 federal appellate · 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 Eyster v. Gaff · Jerome v. McCarter · Halsted v. Buster · Doe v. Childress
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“of all matters and proceedings in bankruptcy.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Grant v. Buckner
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.