Holden v. J a Stratton’s Empirical Analysis
191 U.S. 115 · 1903
Citation profile
79 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 106 later decisions (10 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1942 · most notably Hewit v. Berlin Machine Works (1904), Taylor v. Voss (1926)
79 federal appellate · 3 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
reviewedIn re Holden (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Mueller v. Nugent · Louisville Trust Company v. Leonard Comingor · Bryan v. Louis Bernheimer · McLish v. Roff · Hutchinson v. Otis
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 106 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The distinction between steps in bankruptcy proceedings proper and controversies arising out of the settlement of the estate of bankrupts is recognized in sections 23, 24 and 25 of the present act, and the provisions as to revision in matter of law and appeals were framed and must be construed in view of that distinction.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In re Mueller““the Circuit Court of Appeals treated the case as if before it on a petition for revision, though it had been carried there on an appeal, and we considered the decree as rendered in the exercise of a supervisory power.’’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In re Farrell
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.