Louisville St Co v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis
138 U.S. 501 · 1891
Citation profile
68 federal appellate · 6 district · 40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 191 later decisions (12 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2017 · most notably United States v. American Trucking Associations (1940), Duplex Printing Press Co. v. Deering (1921)
68 federal appellate · 6 district · 40 state decisions — followed in 20 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 Central Trust Co. Of New York v. Grant Locomotive Works (Two Cases) · In re Paschal · Vane v. Newcombe · Gurney v. Atlantic & Great Western Railway Co.
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 191 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The terms ‘officers’ and ‘employes’ both alike refer to those in regular and continued service. Within the ordinary acceptation of the terms, one who is engaged to render service in a particular transaction is neither an officer nor an employé. They imply continuity of service and exclude those employed for a single transaction.””
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““We would not be understood as asserting, even by implication, that the terms of an order of appointment of a receiver vest in all claimants an absolute right as against the security holders. Such terms may be, and doubtless are. a protection to the receiver; and what he does and pays within those terms may be, thereafter, beyond 1he challenge of any party interested in the property. But when he has not acted, and the question is presented to the court as to the liability of the property for any claim, the court is not foreclosed- by the order of appointment, but may consider and determine equitably the extent of liability of the property to such claim, and what its rights of priority may be. Hence, as the receiver did not pay this claim, the parties in interest may rightfully challenge its priority, even if it were within the very letter of the order of appointment of the receiver.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““The lien (even in cases of quantum meruit) is in the nature of an equitable lien (Van Leer v. Van Leer, 3 Cooper’s Tenn. Ch. 23), and is based on the natural equity that the plaintiff ought not to be allowed to appropriate the whole of the judgment in his favor without paying thereout for the services of his attorney in obtaining such judgment.””
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.