Maxwell's Case’s Empirical Analysis
1921
Citation profile
2 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently July 2001
2 district · 10 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.
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The chairman, however, heard the case, but based his decision on an entirely different ground, viz: That the loss, as he puts it, of ‘nearly three-fourths of the distal phalange, constitutes the loss of the entire phalange for all practical or useful purposes,’ and held that the petitioner had lost the phalange of his finger within the meaning of Section 16 of the Act and was .entitled to specific compensation therein provided, less the sums he had already received.” (Emphasis, ours.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Leclerc v. Gilbert
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.