Ferry v. Livingston’s Empirical Analysis
115 U.S. 542 · 1885
Citation profile
1 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1957
1 federal appellate ·
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As this case rests for decision on the facts found, it is not possible for this court to lay down any general rules which will apply to cases differing in their facts from this case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Robertson v. Salomon“Plants, trees, shrubs, and vines of all kinds not -otherwise provided, for, and seeds of all kinds', except medicinal seeds, not specially enumerated or provided for in this act.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Robertson v. Salomon“drugs, barks, beans, berries, etc., any of. the foregoing of which are not edible and are in' a crude state.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Robertson v. Salomon
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.