Venable v. Richards’s Empirical Analysis
105 U.S. 636 · 1881
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 8 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 1972 · most notably Minnesota v. Northern Securities Co. (1904), Ames v. State of Kansas Johnston Kansas Pac Ry Co (1884)
6 federal appellate · 8 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.
Relationships
Relies on State v. Stoll
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If, by any reasonable construction, the two statutes can stand together, they must so stand. If harmony is impossible, and only in that event, the former law is repealed in part or wholly, as the case may be.” State v. Stoll, 17 Wall. 431 ; U. S. v. Tynen, 11 Wall. 92 ; Venable v. Richards, 105 U. S. 638 .”
1 later decision 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.