William McAlister v. William Henkel’s Empirical Analysis
201 U.S. 90 · 1906
Citation profile
45 federal appellate · 7 district · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 95 later decisions (9 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2025 · most notably Rogers v. United States (1951), Wilson v. United States (1911)
45 federal appellate · 7 district · 21 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 Edwin Hale v. William Henkel · State v. Wentworth · New York Life Insurance v. People ex rel. Wheatley
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 95 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Indeed, the authorities are numerous to the effect that an officer of a corporation cannot set up the privilege of a corporation as against his testimony or the production of their books.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ex parte Chapman
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.