William Brewster v. William Wakefield’s Empirical Analysis
63 U.S. 118 · 1859
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 1 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions (13 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2019 · most notably Winters v. United States (1908), Cromwell v. County of Sac (1877)
21 federal appellate · 1 district · 24 state decisions — followed in 16 states
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 · Neves v. Scott · The San Pedro · John McCollum v. Jenison Eager
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.
““Nor wa.s it necessary that the parlies who acquired liens on the mortgaged premises subsequent to the mortgage in question should join in the appeal. They were not necessary parties to a proceeding in equity to foreclose the mortgage, and none of them have appeared to the suit to contest the claim oi! Wakefield. And if it had been otherwise, yet the question in controversy hero is the amount duo from the appellant; and. in the case of Forgtiy v. Conrad, 6 How. 201 , this court decided that a defendant in equity, wiiose interest is separate from the other defendants, may appeal without Ihem.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““ The contract being entirely silent as to interest, if the notes should not be punctually paid, the creditor is entitled to interest after that time by operation of law, and not by any provision in the contract.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Shaw v. Rigby
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.