Fox v. Wharton’s Empirical Analysis
1878
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently December 1993
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 14 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 Morgenstern v. Klees · Brinckerhoff v. Thallhimer · West Branch Bank v. Chester
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 equity jurisdiction heretofore exercised by the judges of the court of common pleas shall be separated from the common-law jurisdiction, and vested in a chancellor, who shall hold courts of chancery in the several counties of this State.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““ ‘This court [Chancery] will not allow itself to be ousted of any part of its original jurisdiction because a court of law happens to fall in love with the same or a similar jurisdiction’.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The Chancellor shall hold the Court of Chancery. This court shall have all the jurisdiction and powers vested by the laws of this state in the Court of Chancery.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hollis v. Kinney
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.