Fenno v. Primrose’s Empirical Analysis
119 F. 801 · 1903
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 10 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently April 1938
8 federal appellate · 10 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.
Relationships
Relies on Pullman's Co v. Central Transp Co · American Bell Tel. Co. v. Western Union Tel. Co. · Davis v. St. Louis & S. F. Ry. Co. · Hershberger v. Blewett · Fenno v. Primrose
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“• “In cases at law, with numerous confused items and issues, where the ultimate right of trial by jury exists, in order to simplify the issues, such a preliminary trial or investigation may and oftentimes does become a necessary step incident to the preparation of the case for the ultimate tribunal, the jury. All this is to the end that the case may be intelligently presented to and understood by the ultimate tribunal.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.