Henry Webster v. Peter Cooper’s Empirical Analysis
55 U.S. 488 · 1852
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 4 district · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions (10 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2016 · most notably Sturges v. Crowninshield (1819), Union Pacific Railroad Company v. Laramie Stock Yards Company (1913)
7 federal appellate · 4 district · 15 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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 Fletcher v. Peck · Dash v. Van Kleeck · Asa Green v. The Lessee of Henry Neal · William Gardner v. John a Collins et al.
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“any law impairing the obligation of contracts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“acquiring, possessing and enjoying property,”
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.