Railway Company v. Heck’s Empirical Analysis
102 U.S. 120 · 1880
Citation profile
85 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 114 later decisions (16 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1992 · most notably Bram v. United States (1897), Fairmount Glass Works v. Cub Fork Coal Co. (1933)
85 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 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 Schuchardt v. Allens · Walton v. United States
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 114 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Our power is confined to exceptions actually taken at the trial. The theory of a bill of exceptions is that it states what occurred when the trial was going on.””
2 later decisions 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.