Frazer v. Howe’s Empirical Analysis
1883
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 70 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions — most recently May 1991 · most notably Libby, McNeill & Libby v. Cook (1906), Continental Life Insurance v. Rogers (1887)
1 federal appellate · 70 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 Pennsylvania Co. v. Conlan · Williams v. Bemis · Ives v. Hazard Others · William Butcher Steel Works v. Atkinson · Crowley v. Crowley
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.
““ It is not within the province of the judge, on such a motion, to weigh the evidence and ascertain where the preponderance is. This function is limited strictly to determining whether there is or is not evidence legally tending to prove the fact affirmed, i. e., evidence from which, if credited, it may reasonably be inferred, in legal contemplation, the fact affirmed exists, laying entirely out of view the effect of all modifying or countervailing evidence.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“express the substance of the contract with reasonable certainty.”
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.