May v. Sloan’s Empirical Analysis
101 U.S. 231 · 1879
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 2 district · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2013 · most notably Asakura v. City of Seattle (1924), United States v. Paul (2001)
23 federal appellate · 2 district · 22 state decisions — followed in 11 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.
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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The word ‘trade,’ in its broadest signification, includes not only the business of exchanging commodities by barter, but the business of buying and selling for money or commerce and traffic generally.””
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the business of exchanging commodities by barter,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.