Mary Barney by Her Next Friend Maxwell Woodhull v. David Saunders Roger C Weigtman and Samuel C Barney’s Empirical Analysis
57 U.S. 535 · 1853
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 11 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1975 · most notably Alexander Magruder v. Samuel a Drury (1914), Buffum v. Peter Barceloux Co. (1933)
17 federal appellate · 11 district · 18 state decisions — followed in 10 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 Thompson v. Brown · Bryant v. Craig · Ringgold v. Ringgold · Diffenderffer v. Winder
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“On the subject of compounding interest on trustees, there is, and indeed could not well be, any uniform rule which could justly apply to all cases. When a trust to invest had been grossly and wilfully neglected; where the funds have been used by the trustees in their own business, or profits made of which they give no account, interest is compounded as a punishment, or as a measure of damage for undisclosed profits and in place of them.”
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.