Boardman v. Toffey’s Empirical Analysis
117 U.S. 271 · 1886
Citation profile
238 federal appellate · 38 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 368 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2019 · most notably Daye v. Attorney General of New York (1982), Fleischmann Const Co v. United States (1926)
238 federal appellate · 38 district · 3 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 Royall · Norris v. Jackson · Martinton v. Fairbanks · Cooper Executor v. Omohundro
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 368 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where issues of fact are submitted to the circuit court, and the finding is general, nothing is open to review, * * * except the rulings of the circuit court in the progress of the trial; and the phrase, ‘rulings of the court in the progress of the trial,’ does not include the general finding of the circuit court, nor the conclusions of the circuit court embodied in such general finding.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bowden v. Burnham
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.