Roswell Beebe et al. v. William Russell’s Empirical Analysis
60 U.S. 283 · 1856
Citation profile
46 federal appellate · 1 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 88 later decisions (13 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2006 · most notably Deckert v. Independence Shares Corp. (1940), McGourkey v. Toledo & Ohio Central Railway Co. (1892)
46 federal appellate · 1 district · 7 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 Antoine Michoud v. Peronne Bernardine Girod · Ray v. Law · The Palmyra Depau
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 88 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When a decree finally decides and disposes of the whole merits of the cause, and reserves no further questions or directions for the future judgment of the court, so that it will not be necessary to bring the cause again before the court for its final decision, it is a final decree.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Harmon v. Struthers · The Chief““When a decree finally decides and disposes of the whole merits of the eause, and reserves no further questions or directions for the future judgment of the court, so that it will not be necessary to bring the cause again before the court for its final decision, it is a final decree. * * * But the reference of a case to a master, to take an account upon evidence, and from the examination of the parties, and to make or not to make allowances affecting the rights of the parties, and to report his results to the court, is not a final decree, because his. report is subject to exceptions from either side, which must be brought to the notice of the court before it can be available. It can only be made so by the court’s overruling the exceptions, or by an order confirming the report, with a final decree for its appropriation and payment.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Odbert v. Marquet“A “decree may be final, although it directs a reference to a master, if all the consequential directions depending upon the result of the master’s report are contained in the decree, so that no further decree of the court will be necessary, upon the confirmation of the report, to give the parties the entire and full benefit of the previous decision of the court ” . . . Also a decree may be final although leave is given to apply for further relief, or the court reserves the right to make further orders.”
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.