William Openhym & Sons v. Blake’s Empirical Analysis
157 F. 536 · 1907
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently August 1978
5 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Relies on Donaldson Assignee v. Farwell et al. · Skilton v. . Codington · Solon Frank v. Joseph Vollkommer · Turner v. Ward
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““While tlie bankruptcy court refrained from taking possession of the goods, the appellant should not suffer. The goods were in the custody of the law, and the acts of the state court and its receiver were presumably for the benefit of the estate.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rathman v. Booth
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.