Sharp v. Riessner’s Empirical Analysis
119 U.S. 631 · 1887
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 1902
2 federal appellate · 1 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.
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.
““The water vessel, A, with its perforated' top plate, A, and hot-air cylinder, C, hinged at c to plate A’, and top perforated plate, L, all- arranged and connected together substantially as and for the purpose set forth.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sharp v. Riessner
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.