Hugh Wallace v. Mary Wormley’s Empirical Analysis
21 U.S. 421 · 1823
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 7 district · 40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 161 later decisions (11 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2015 · most notably Securities and Exchange Commission v. Chenery Corporation (1943), Carden v. Arkoma Associates (1990)
31 federal appellate · 7 district · 40 state decisions — followed in 18 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 Strawbridge v. Curtiss · Prevost v. Gratz · Russell v. Clark's Executors · Marsh v. Whitmore
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 161 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This court will not suffer its jurisdiction to be ousted by the mere joinder or nonjoinder of formal parties but will rather proceed without them, and decide upon the merits of the ease between the parties, who have the real interests before it, whenever it can be done, without prejudice to the rights of others.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““It is a settled rule in equity, that a purchaser, without notice to be entitled to protection, must not only be so, at the time of the contract or conveyance, but at the time of the payment of the purchase money.””
2 later decisions 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.