Dickinson v. Willis’s Empirical Analysis
239 F. 171 · 1916
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1990
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 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 Barton v. Barbour · Wabash Railroad Company v. Adelbert College of the Western Reserve University · Texas & Pacific Railway Co. v. Cox · Thompson v. Phenix Ins Co of Brooklyn N Y · Porter v. Sabin
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.
““Every receiver or manager of any property appointed by any court of the United States may be sued in respect .of any act or transaction of his in carrying on the business connected with such property, without the previous leave of the court in which such receiver or manager was appointed; but such suit shall be subject to the general equity jurisdiction of the court in which such manager or receiver was appointed so far as the same may be necessary to the ends of justice.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““The line must be drawn between those cases which seek to recover a judgment against the receiver in the nature of damages and those cases which involve the possession of the property in the hands of the receiver, or the use of such property or the management thereof — the administration of the property in his hands. . As to questions of possession, use, and management, I am satisfied that the appointing court, whether it be state or federal, has exclusive jurisdiction.””
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.