Wilson v. Simpson’s Empirical Analysis
50 U.S. 109 · 1850
Citation profile
96 federal appellate · 35 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 234 later decisions (14 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2019 · most notably United States v. Aluminum Co. of America (1945), Aro Manufacturing Co. v. Convertible Top Replacement Co. (1961)
96 federal appellate · 35 district · 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.
Relationships
Relies on William McClurg v. Lawrence Kingsland · James Wilson v. Lewis Rousseau · Simpson v. Wilson
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 234 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Repairing partial injuries, whether they occur from accident or from wear and tear, is only refitting a machine for use. And it is no more than that, though it shall be a replacement of an essential part of a combination.””
20 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.