Wylie v. Coxe’s Empirical Analysis
56 U.S. 415 · 1853
Citation profile
40 federal appellate · 10 district · 38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 148 later decisions (23 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2013 · most notably Central Railroad Banking Co of Georgia v. Pettus (1885), STANTON v. Embrey, Administrator (1877)
40 federal appellate · 10 district · 38 state decisions — followed in 18 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 Hunt v. Rousmanier's Administrators · Newbaker v. Alricks
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 148 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The evidence proves that the complainant was to receive a contingent fee of 5 per centum out of the fund awarded, whether money or scrip. This being the contract, it constituted a lien upon the fund, whether it should be money or scrip. The fund was looked to and not the personal responsibility of the owner of the claim. A bill filed under the act would have authorized an injunction for the amount claimed 'by complainant. Such a procedure would be within the act. But under the contract the lien on the fund in the hands of the administrator, is a sufficient ground for an equity jurisdiction. The payment of the fund to the executrix in Mexico would place it probably beyond the reach of the complainant.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hale v. Tyson““Therft may be a legal remedy, and yet, if a more complete remedy can be had in chancery, it is a sufficient ground for jurisdiction.””
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.