Cable v. Ellis’s Empirical Analysis
110 U.S. 389 · 1884
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 3 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2008 · most notably Houston Ry Co v. Shirley (1884), Eaton v. Walker (1923)
8 federal appellate · 3 district · 3 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 Meyer v. Construction Co. · Sumner v. Waugh · Ellis v. Sisson · Cable v. Ellis
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“can do nothing that might not have been done for him by his representative without his intervention. [The intervenor] took his place by intervention in the suit subject to all the disabilities that rested at the time on the party in whose stead he is to act.”
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.