United States v. Parker’s Empirical Analysis
120 U.S. 89 · 1887
Citation profile
51 federal appellate · 14 district · 41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 157 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2020 · most notably Lawlor v. National Screen Service Corp. (1955), Pelletier v. Zweifel (1991)
51 federal appellate · 14 district · 41 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 MINOR v. the Mechanics Bank of Alexandria · Manhattan Life Insurance v. Broughton · Haldeman v. United States · Merritt v. Campbell
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 157 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“equivalent to a judgment that the plaintiff had no cause of action, because the defense of the defendant was found to be sufficient in law and true in fact.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““It is obvious, therefore, that, if that deed did not pass the legal title, the appellant is without standing in eourt; for although, under the laws of Mississippi (Code 1892, § 500), a bill may be maintained in the circuit court of the United States by a person not in possession against another who is also out of possession, as is the case here, ‘still this does not make the complainant’s rights any the less dependent upon title in him, nor does it put him in a position to have a cloud removed from a title which has no existence.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““A retraxit differs from a nonsuit in this: One is negative, and the other positive. The nonsuit is a mere default or neglect of the plaintiff, and therefore he is allowed to begin his suit again upon payment of costs; but a retraxit is an open, voluntary renunciation of his claim, in court, and by this he forever loses his action.” 8 Bl. Comm. 296.”
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.