Felix v. Scharnweber’s Empirical Analysis
125 U.S. 54 · 1888
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions (10 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1946 · most notably Excelsior Wooden Pipe Company v. Pacific Bridge Company (1902), Charleston Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n v. Alderson (1945)
6 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 Brown v. Atwell · Adams County v. Burlington & Missouri Railroad · Parmelee v. Lawrence · Bartemeyer v. Iowa
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to make more certain and. specific what is too general and indefinite in the record,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Roby v. Colehour
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.