Lucius Stockton and Daniel Moore v. Harriet Bishop’s Empirical Analysis
45 U.S. 155 · 1846
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 1934 · most notably Fowler v. Equitable Trust Co. (1891), McDonald v. Nebraska (1900)
13 federal appellate · 3 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 United States v. Kirkpatrick · Slacum v. Pomery · Lessee of Cluggage v. Swain · Reynolds v. Dexter Horton & Co.
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Tliis is a remedial statute, and must be construed liberally to accomplish its object. It not only enables the courts of the United States, but it enjoins upon them as a duty, to disregard the niceties of form, which often stand in the way of justice, and to give judgment according as the right of the cause and matter in law shall appear to them. And, although verdicts axe not specially mentioned in this provision, yet the words, ‘or course of proceedings whatever,’ are evidently broad enough to include them; and, as they are within the evil, they cannot, upon a fair interpretation of the statute, be excluded from the remedy.””
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.