Parsons v. Robinson’s Empirical Analysis
122 U.S. 112 · 1887
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2024 · most notably In re Saco Local Development Corp. (1983), McGourkey v. Toledo & Ohio Central Railway Co. (1892)
26 federal appellate · 5 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.
Relationships
Relies on Bostwick v. Brinkerhoff · Grant v. Phoenix Ins. Co. · Railroad Company v. Swasey
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it does not terminate the litigation between the parties on the merits of the case,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“further judicial action must be had by the court before its ministerial officers”
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.