Union Co v. Dull’s Empirical Analysis
124 U.S. 173 · 1888
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 3 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1985 · most notably Jicarilla Apache Tribe v. Andrus (1982), Campbell v. Northwest Eckington Improvement Co. (1913)
16 federal appellate · 3 district · 10 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 Atlantic Delaine Co. v. James · Vigel v. Hopp
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an exertion of the most extraordinary power of a court of equity. The power ought not to be exercised except in a clear case...”
3 later decisions 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.