George Day Bowen Matlock Isaac Frothingham and George Warner v. William a Washburn and John a Keith’s Empirical Analysis
65 U.S. 352 · 1860
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 3 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1939 · most notably Case v. Beauregard (1879), Henry Wyman v. Sumner Wallace (1906)
9 federal appellate · 3 district · 13 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 6 Ohio App. 3d 46 - Ostendorf-Morris Co. v. Slyman · Thomas Deye Owings v. Andrew Kincannon · Bank of United States v. Burke
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"In the present case, as the assignment was made to Keith in trust for the benefit of creditors, if the bill had been filed to enforce the trust, no judgment or execution would have been necessary, as preliminary steps to the interposition of the court.””
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.