Whitney v. Fox’s Empirical Analysis
166 U.S. 637 · 1897
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 6 district · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1996 · most notably Penn Mut Life Ins Co v. City of Austin (1898), Carolene Products Co. v. United States (1944)
13 federal appellate · 6 district · 28 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 Hammond v. Hopkins · Speidel v. Henrici · Badger v. Badger · Godden v. Kimmell · Hayward v. National Bank
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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Equity will sometimes refuse relief where a shorter time than that prescribed by the statute of limitations has elapsed without suit. It ought always to do so where, as in this case, the delay in the assertion of rights is not adequately explained, and such circumstances have intervened in the condition of the adverse party as render it unjust to him or to his estate that a court of equity should assist the plaintiff.””
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.