The Eliza Lines’s Empirical Analysis
114 F. 307 · 1902
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 1960
2 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Relies on British Queen Mining Co. v. Baker Silver Mining Co. · Northwestern Fuel Co. v. Brock · The Bank of the United States v. The Bank of Washington · Ober v. Gallagher · Watts v. Camors
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It Is by no means clear, however, that the preliminary opinion of the Circuit Court justified the commissioner’s mode of computation in his first report, or that the alternative report is so clearly correct that we can now adopt it””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. The Eliza Lines
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.