Wisconsin Cent Co v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 9 district · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 90 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2014 · most notably Flippin Materials Company, a Joint Venture Composed of Brown and Root, Inc., a Corporation v. The United States (1963), Flippin Materials Co. v. United States (1963)
6 federal appellate · 9 district · 21 state decisions — followed in 13 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 United States v. Behan · McElrath v. United States · United States v. Healey · Whiteside v. United States · United States v. Stone
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 90 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We concur in these views, and are of the opinion that there is nothing on this record to take the case out of the scope of the principle that parties receiving moneys illegally paid by a public officer are liable ex aequo et bono 9 to refund them.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“'peculiar circumstances appear to make such recovery inequitable and unjust'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“'be corrected and properly charged against credits coming in afterwards'”
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.