Wiscart v. Dauchy’s Empirical Analysis
3 U.S. 321 · 1796
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions (18 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1942 · most notably Capital Traction Co. v. Hof (1899), Tennessee v. Davis (1879)
6 federal appellate · 1 district · 9 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.
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“From final decrees in a District Court in causes of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction, where the matter in dispute exceeds, the sum or value of 300 dollars, exclusive of costs, an appeal shall be allowed to the next Circuit Court to be held in such District.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wiscart v. Dauchy“the Supreme Court shall have appellate jurisdiction, both as to law and fact, with such exceptions, and under such regulations as the Congress shall make.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wiscart v. Dauchy“the conveyances were intended to defraud the complainant, and to prevent his obtaining satisfaction for a just demand;”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wiscart v. Dauchy
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.