Oelbermann v. Merritt’s Empirical Analysis
123 U.S. 356 · 1887
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 7 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions (8 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 1906 · most notably Auffmordt v. Hedden (1890), Muser v. Magone (1894)
10 federal appellate · 7 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.
Relationships
Relies on Hilton v. Merritt · James Converse v. Benjamin Burgess · Philip Greely Junior v. William Thompson · Canal Bank v. Mayor of Albany
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In regard to the question whether [the merchant appraiser] was a competent witness to prove that he was not familiar with the character and value of silk velvets we are of the opinion that his evidence on that subject was admissible. As the question of his familiarity with the article and with its value necessarily depended upon the nature and, to some degree at least, upon the extent of his experience in connection with the article, no one could know What that experience was so well as himself. If he is to be excluded as a witness on the subject, the court and the jury and the parties would be deprived of the best testimony within reach.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“familiar with the character and value of the goods in question.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Auffmordt v. Hedden
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.