Stryker v. Crane Chapman’s Empirical Analysis
123 U.S. 527 · 1887
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 5 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2015 · most notably Bigelow v. Old Dominion Copper Mining & Smelting Co. (1912), Old Dominion Copper Mining & Smelting Co. v. Bigelow (1909)
23 federal appellate · 5 district · 18 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 Wolsey v. Chapman · Dubuque & Pacific Railroad v. Litchfield · Wolcott v. Des Moines Co. · Homestead Company v. Valley Railroad
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Wo have not overlooked the fact that a brief was filed at the hearing in ibis court on behalf of the railroad company to support the claim of Wolcott that the title of that company was the best. Such a proceeding did not make the railroad compaiiy a party to the suit, or bind it by the decree. Being interested in the question to be decided, the company was anxious to secure a judgment that could not be used as a precedent against its own claims in any litigation that might thereafter arise in respect to Its own property. It is not an uncommon thing in this court to allow briefs to be presented by or on behalf of persons who are not parties to the suit, but who are interested in the questions to be decided, and it has never been supposed that a judgment in such a ease would estop the intervenor in a suit of his own which presented the same questions.””
3 later decisions 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.