Anderson v. Settergren’s Empirical Analysis
1907
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently December 1995 · most notably Rappaport v. Nichols (1959), Felder v. Butler (1981)
1 federal appellate · 28 state decisions — followed in 12 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 Hayes v. Michigan Central Railroad · Binford v. Johnston · Mattson v. Minnesota & North Wisconsin Railroad · Carter v. Towne · Osborne v. McMasters
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The statute (section 6946, G.S.1894) in force at the time when the facts in this case occurred provided: That it shall be unlawful for any minor person under the age of fourteen years to handle or have in his possession or control, except while accompanied by or under the immediate charge of his parent or guardian, any firearm of any species whatever, for hunting or target practice; or any other purpose whatever.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hage v. Stade
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.