Winchester v. Craig’s Empirical Analysis
1876
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1947 · most notably Stratton's Independence, Ltd. v. Howbert (1913), Bolles Wooden Ware Co v. United States (1882)
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 28 state decisions — followed in 16 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.
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"'File court raider one branch of the charge instructed the; jury to allow the market value at Detroit, or Toledo, less the sum of money which de-IVndann; expended in bringing- it to market. This, we think, was as favorable as the plainiiff had any right in this case to expect. This was allowing the plainiiff more than the value of the timber when It was first severed from the ready. It did not permit the defendants to recover any profit upon what they had done, but protected them to the extent of the advances they had made; and this, we think, was correct.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““The law rather aims so far as possible, to protect the plaintiff; but at the same time it has a due regard to the rights of the defendants, and it will not inflict an undue or unjust punishment upon them, in cases where they are not deserving it, as a means of righting an injury, especially where it would much more than compensate the owner for the injury which he sustained.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Turner v. Seep
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.