Wylie v. Coxe’s Empirical Analysis
55 U.S. 1 · 1852
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1956 · most notably Conboy v. First National Bank (1906), Pacific Express Co. v. Seibert (1892)
15 federal appellate · 4 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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ In that case, before any appeal was taken, a petition was filed to open the decree for certain purposes, and the court referred it to a commissioner to examine and report on the matters stated in the petition. Upon his report the court refused to open the decree, and the party thereupon appealed from this refusal, as well as the original decree, and gave bond witlx sufficient security to prosecute the appeal. The bond was given within ten days after the refusal of the motion, but was more than a month after the original deci-ee. And the court held that this appeal was well taken; not because an appeal will lie from the refusal of a motion to open a decree and grant a rehearing, but because the court regarded the original decree as suspended by the action of the court on the motion, and that it was not effectual and final until the motion was overruled.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Brown v. Evans“rests in the sound discretion of the court below, and no appeal will lie from it.”
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.