Willcox v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
177 F. 870 · 1910
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2000
5 federal appellate · 4 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.
Relationships
Relies on Nougu v. Clapp · Randall v. Howard · Central Trust Co. of New York v. St. Louis, A. & T. Ry. Co. · St. Louis S. W. Ry. Co. v. Holbrook · Maner v. Wilson
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In the absence of a provision of this character this statute would lead to interminable confusion and conflict of jurisdiction. Therefore Congress has wisely provided that the courts of the United States in such cases shall have ample power to settle and adjust all equities arising in such suits without hindrance by providing that they shall be subject to the general equity jurisdiction of such courts, thus, among other things, giving a court of the United States the power to say whether the judgment thus obtained is a first lien on the property in the hands of the receiver, to determine when the same shall be paid, the order of its payment, and cases might occur in which it would he necessary for the court to determine as to whether the court wherein the judgment was rendered had jurisdiction. Thereby the courts of the United States are clothed with ample power, by injunction, to prevent judgment creditors from harrassing a receiver or interfering with the property in his possession. The final settlement and adjustment of all claims and Ihe payment of all moneys are to be made subject to the decree of .the court appointing the receiver. To this extent, the power of such court is supreme. The contention that it is contemplated by this statute that the United States courts should at all times have jurisdiction over such suits in the state courts to such an extent as to review the action of such courts cannot he sustained upon principle, nor is there anything in the statute to”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.