Forgay v. Conrad’s Empirical Analysis
47 U.S. 201 · 1848
Citation profile
306 federal appellate · 16 district · 86 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 605 later decisions (74 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2024 · most notably Brown Shoe Co. v. United States (1962), Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. v. Risjord (1981)
306 federal appellate · 16 district · 86 state decisions — followed in 27 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.
Relationships
Relies on The Palmyra Depau · Young v. Grundy · Course v. Stead · Chace
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 605 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The question upon the motion to dismiss is whether this is a final decree, within the meaning of the acts of Congress. Undoubtedly, it is not final, in the strict, technical sense of that term. But this court has not heretofore understood the words ‘final decrees’ in this strict and technical sense, but has given to them a more liberal, and, as we think, a more reasonable construction, and one more consonant to the intention of the Legislature.” “And when the decree decides the right to the property in contest, and directs - it to be delivered up by the defendant to the complainant, or directs it to be sold, or directs the defendant to pay a certain sum of money to the complainant, and the complainant is entitled to have such decree carried immediately into execution, the decree must be regarded as a final one to that extent, and authorizes an appeal to this court, although so much of the bill is retained in the Circuit Court as is necessary for the purpose of adjusting by a further decree the accounts between the parties pursuant to the decree passed. “This rule, of course, does not extend to cases where money is directed to be paid into court, or property to be delivered to a receiver, or property held in trust to be delivered to a new trustee appointed by the court, or to eases of a like description. Orders of that kind are frequently and necessarily made in the progress of a cause. But. they are interlocutory only, and intended 'to preserve the subject-matter in dispute ”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“may be ruined before he is permitted to avail himself of the right”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“This rule, of course, does not extend to cases where money is directed to be paid into court, or property to be delivered to a receiver, or property held in trust to be delivered to a new trustee appointed by the court, or to cases of a like description. Orders of that kind are frequently and necessarily made in the progress of a cause. But they are interlocutory only, and intended to preserve the subject-matter in dispute from waste or dilapidation, and to keep it within the control of the court until the rights of the parties concerned can be adjudicated by a final decree.”
3 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.