Machine Co. v. Compress Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1900
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently February 1988
1 federal appellate · 10 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.
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““But if you find that it was in the contemplation of the parties that, in the event of default by the defendant to furnish suitable and proper machinery, the loss of the use of the compress would necessarily ensue, and if you find as a necessary result of the explosion due to the negligence of the defendant in furnishing a defective cylinder that the plaintiff was deprived of the use of the compress, 'plaintiff would be entitled to recover the rental value of thfe compress, as shown by the,evidence dhring the period it was so deprived of its use.””
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.