Adams Express Co. v. Schofield’s Empirical Analysis
1901
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently February 1948
2 federal appellate · 20 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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The words ‘corporation,’ ‘company’ may be construed as including any corporation, company, person,.persons, partnership, joint stock company or association.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The word corporation as used, in this Constitution shall embrace joint stock companies and associations. ””
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.