Wood v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
59 U.S. 467 · 1855
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 6 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 91 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2005 · most notably Carden v. Arkoma Associates (1990), Salem Trust Co. v. Manufacturers' Finance Co. (1924)
21 federal appellate · 6 district · 4 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 Hugh Wallace v. Mary Wormley · Browne v. Strode · The Mechanics' and Traders' Bank Branch of the State Bank of Ohio v. Charles Thomas Treasurer of Hamilton County
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 91 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It has been repeatedly decided by this court that formal parties, or nominal parties, or parties without interest, united with the real parties to the litigation, cannot oust the federal courts of jurisdiction, if the citizenship or character of the real parties be such as to confer it. ””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““This is not the case of a stakeholder, or holder of a deed as an escrow, where a trust has been created by the parties which is sought to be enforced by one of them. In all such cases the trustee may be a proper party, as he has a duty to perform, and which the court may enforce if improperly neglected or refused.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Scoutt v. Keck
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.