Erastus Corning John Winslow and James Horner v. The Troy Iron and Nail Factory’s Empirical Analysis
56 U.S. 451 · 1853
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2014 · most notably Deposit Guaranty National Bank v. Roper (1980), Gaines v. Caldwell George G Latta Gaines (1893)
16 federal appellate · 9 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 Ex Parte Charles Sibbald v. The United States · Himely v. Rose · The Santa Maria · United States v. Gusman · The Palmyra Depau
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““To allow a second writ of error or appeal to a court of last resort on the same questions which were open to dispute on the first would lead to endless litigation. * * * There would be no end to a suit if every obstinate litigant could, by repeated appeals, compel a court to listen to criticisms on their opinions, or speculate of chances from changes in its members.””
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.