John Craighead et al. v. Joseph E and Alexander Wilson’s Empirical Analysis
59 U.S. 199 · 1855
Citation profile
45 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions (14 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1996 · most notably Deckert v. Independence Shares Corp. (1940), Schoenamsgruber v. Hamburg American Line (1935)
45 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 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 Forgay v. Conrad · Antoine Michoud v. Peronne Bernardine Girod · John Perkins v. Edward F. Fourniquet and Wife, and Martin W. Ewing and Wife
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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where a case in chancery was referred to a master to state accounts between the plaintiffs and defendants, to ascertain how much property remained in the hands of the latter, and how much had been sold, with the prices, to make allowances to the defendants for payments made or incumbrances discharged, and to ascertain what might be due from either defendant to the plaintiffs, this was not such a final decree as could be appealed from to this court. “Although the decree settles the equities of the bill, yet the amount to be distributed amongst the parties depends upon the facts to be reported by the master; and, until the allotment to each one of the share to which he might be entitled, the decree cannot be considered as final.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Odbert v. Marquet
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.