Schlesinger v. Beard’s Empirical Analysis
120 U.S. 264 · 1887
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 1969 · most notably J. W. Perry Co. v. City of Norfolk (1911), State v. King (1908)
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ They are not old in the sense of having been worn by use, but the are scrap, and no longer capable of any use until remanufactured, because in their use they have been rendered worthless for any purpose except to remanufac-ture.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.