Westerlund v. Peterson’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently August 2019
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 12 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 Yick Wo v. Hopkins · Scott v. Neely · Standidge v. Chicago Railways Co. · Wiggins & Johnson v. Williams · Hill v. Phillips' Adm'r
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“By extending equitable jurisdiction to new subjects, the legislature cannot impair the right to trial by jury. It cannot “confer equity jurisdiction * * * in matters in respect to which such jurisdiction did not exist before the adoption of the Constitution, and draw to it a legal cause of action cognizable exclusively in a law court and triable by jury, and have both tried by a court without a jury.” Wiggins & Johnson v. Williams, 36 Fla. 637, 657 , 18 South 859 , 30 L.R.A. 754 , citing Scott v. Neely, 140 U.S. 106 , 11 Sup.Ct. 712 , 35 L.Ed. 358 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Olson v. Aretz
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.