Swan v. Arthur’s Empirical Analysis
103 U.S. 597 · 1880
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions (17 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2013 · most notably United States v. Stone & Downer Co. (1927), American Net & Twine Co. v. Worthington (1891)
8 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“language will be presumed to have the same meaning-in commerce that it has in ordinary use, unless the contrary is shown,”
3 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.