Wickliffe v. Owings’s Empirical Analysis
58 U.S. 47 · 1854
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1984 · most notably United States v. American Bell Telephone Co. (1888), Dred Scott v. John F a Sandford (1856)
10 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 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 Meriwether Clark v. Andrew Smith
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The doctrine of this court is settled that when 'the jurisdiction of the Circuit Court appears by proper averments on the record, the defendant can only impugn it in a special plea. The thirty-ninth rule of practice for courts of equity in the United States, adopted by this court, excludes matters of abatement, objections to the character of parties, and to matters of form from the answer, and confines its operation to matters in bar, or to the merits of the bill,” .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bettes v. Brower
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.