Martinton v. Fairbanks’s Empirical Analysis
112 U.S. 670 · 1885
Citation profile
147 federal appellate · 1 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 202 later decisions (22 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 1954 · most notably United States v. Jefferson Electric Manufacturing Co. (1934), Meeker v. Lehigh Valley Railroad (1915)
147 federal appellate · 1 district · 8 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 Norris v. Jackson · Insurance Company v. Folsom · the "Abbotsford" · Miller v. Life Insurance
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 202 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘Rulings of the court in the progress of the trial’ does not include the general finding of the Circuit Court, nor the conclusions * * * embodied in such general finding.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage““If tbe question was whether all the evidence was sufficient in law to warrant a finding for the plaintiff, he should have presented that question by a request for a definite ruling upon that point.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““The theory of the plaintiff in error seems to be that the general finding in this case, like a general verdict, includes questions of both law and fact, and that by excepting to the general finding he excepts to such conclusions of law as the general finding implies. But section 649, Rev. St., provides that the finding of the court, whether general or special, shall have the same effect as the verdict of a jury. The general verdict of a jury concludes mixed questions of law and fact, except so far as they may be saved by some exception which the party has taken to the ruling of the court upon a question of law. * * * The provision of the statute that the finding of the court shall have'the same effect as the verdict of a jury cuts off the right to review in this case.””
2 later decisions 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.