Ames v. Quimby’s Empirical Analysis
106 U.S. 342 · 1882
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1933 · most notably Vicksburg v. Putnam (1886), Panama Co v. Napier Shipping Co (1897)
14 federal appellate · 5 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 Ames v. Quimby · Curran v. Rogers
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The plaintiff, where the quality of goods which he furnished at a given •time to the defendant is in question, may show the good quality of like arti cíes furnished at the same time by him to another party, if he further shows that shoes he furnished to each party were of the same kind and quality.””
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.