Mercantile Trust Co. v. Wood’s Empirical Analysis
60 F. 346 · 1894
Citation profile
33 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently January 1935 · most notably Wear v. Imperial Window Glass Co. (1915), United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. v. Board of Com'rs of Woodson County (1906)
33 federal appellate ·
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 Lehnen v. Dickson · Norris v. Jackson · Insurance Company v. Folsom · Martinton v. Fairbanks · Cooper Executor v. Omohundro
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There are only two methods by which questions of law can be so presented to the court that tries the facts that this court can review them by writ of error. These methods are: First, by seasonable objections and exceptions to the rulings of the court upon the admission or rejection of evidence; and, second, by requesting the court, before the trial is ended, to make declarations of law, and excepting to its refusal to do so, and to its declarations of law, if any, that do not accord with the propositions asked, in exactly the same way as instructions to a jury would be requested; and the rulings of the court giving or refusing them would be excepted to, if the trial was before a jury. The finding of the court, whether general or special, performs the office of a verdict of a jury. When it is made and filed, the trial is ended.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““When a case comes to this court upon a writ of error, this is a court for the correction of the errors of the court below solely. To enable us to review those errors in a case tried by the court, it must appear that the legal propositions on which they rest were presented to that court and ruled upon before the trial ended.””
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.