Wooster v. Handy’s Empirical Analysis
23 F. 49 · 1885
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 15 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently April 1952 · most notably Pine River Logging Improvement Company v. United States (1902), Vincennes Steel Corp. v. Miller (1938)
7 federal appellate · 15 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 Vannevar v. Bryant · Bryant v. Rich · Wooster v. Handy · Coy v. Perkins · Andrews v. Cole
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘A final hearing in equity or admiralty,’ within the moaning of section 824, * * * must be a hearing of the cause on its merits; that is, a submission of it to the court in such shape as the parties choose to give it, with a view to a determination whether the plaintiff or libelant has made out the case stated by him in his bill or libel as the ground for the permanent relief which his pleading seeks, on such proofs as the parties place before the court, be the case oue of pro confesso, or bill or libel and answer, or pleadings alone, or pleadings and proofs. Nor does it detract from the force of this conclusion that what is called an interlocutory decree, as distinguished from a final decree, is often entered as the result of a decision on a final hearing.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““Lawful fees for exemplification and copies of papers necessarily obtained for use on trails in cases whore by law costs are recoverable in favor of Ike prevailing party, shall bo taxed.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““If a party does not pay a witness either before or after he has testified, the presumption is that the debt is forgiven, unless the failure to pay is explained in such wise that the fee can be considered as if ‘paid’; because botli parties intend it shall be paid. Nothing of that kind here appears. Witnesses are generally paid in advance, or at the time, or soon afterwards; and where, as here, they are paid in one or more cases, and not in others, the evidence is strong that they arc never to be paid; especially whore the lapse of-time is so great as here between the rendering of the service, and the taxation.””
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.