Jacob Wilson v. Daniel Barnum’s Empirical Analysis
49 U.S. 258 · 1850
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions (10 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1971
2 federal appellate · 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.
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The question thus certified is one of fact, and has been discussed as su'ch in the arguments offered on both sides. It is a question as to the, substantial identity of the two machines. . ■ . . The jurisdiction of .this court to hear and determine a question certified from the Circuit .Court is derived altogether from the act of 1802 [cited • above], and that act evidently gives the jurisdiction only in cases where the judges of the Circuit Court differ in opinion on a point of law. - ... In the multitude of questions which have been certified, this, court has never taken jurisdiction of a question of fact. .And in a question of law it requires the precise point to be stated, otherwise the case is remanded without an answer.”
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.