California Artificial Stone Paving Co. v. Molitor’s Empirical Analysis
113 U.S. 609 · 1885
Citation profile
71 federal appellate · 24 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 227 later decisions (16 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2023 · most notably Board of Trade of City of Chicago v. Hammond Elevator Company (1905), Hurlbut v. Schillinger (1889)
71 federal appellate · 24 district · 4 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 Wayman v. Southard · United States v. John Bailey · Adams Cunningham and Company v. Calvin Jones · Webster v. Cooper
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 227 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is a severe remedy, and should not be resorted to where there is a fair ground of doubt as to the wrongfulness of defendant's conduct.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“not such as involve or imply conclusions or judgment by the court upon the weight or effect of testimony or facts adduced in the cause.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jewell v. Knight
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.