Benton v. . Wickwire’s Empirical Analysis
1873
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1958 · most notably Goldsmith v. United States Board of Tax Appeals (1926), People v. . O'Brien (1888)
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 30 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 Ely and Others v. . Holton
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There was once, and long ago, a ruie in the construction o£ statutes that an amendment of it was to be regarded as if having been incorporated in and mado si part of the original enactment; but that rule has been for a long time disregarded, and it is now settled that an amendment has no more retroactive effect than an original act upon the same subject. Ely v. Holton, 15 N. Y. 595 ; People v. Carnal, 6 N. Y. 463 , Neither original statutes nor amemlmerits can have any retroactive force, unless in exceptional cases the Legislature so declare. This case is not one, and the legislative amendment of 1871 is not at all favorable to the plaintiffs’ position.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. The San Juan
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.