Thornton v. Schreiber’s Empirical Analysis
124 U.S. 612 · 1888
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions (11 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1954 · most notably Mazer v. Stein (1954), Bleistein v. Donaldson Lithographing Co. (1903)
8 federal appellate · 2 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 Burrow-Giles Lithographic Co. v. Sarony
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Counsel for defendants in error, Schreiber & Sons’, insist that the words ‘found in his possession’ are to be construed as referring to the finding of the jury; that the expression means simply that, where sheets arc ascertained by the finding of the jury to have been at any time in the possession of the person who committed the wrongful act, such person shall forfeit one dollar for each sheet so ascertained to have been in his possession. We, however, ■think that the word ‘found’ means that there must be a time before the cause of action accrues at which they are found in the possession of the defendant.””
2 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.