Rucker v. Wheeler’s Empirical Analysis
127 U.S. 85 · 1888
Citation profile
54 federal appellate · 5 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 84 later decisions (9 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1956 · most notably Sparf v. United States (1895), Starr v. United States (1894)
54 federal appellate · 5 district · 2 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 Vicksburg v. Putnam · United States v. Philadelphia & Reading Railroad · St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway v. Vickers · St Louis Ry Co v. Vickers
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 84 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In the courts of the United States, as in those of England, from which our practice was derived, the judge, in submitting a ease to the jury, may, at .his discretion, whenever he thinks it necessary to assist them in arriving at a just conclusion, comment upon the evidence, call their attention to parts of it which he thinks important, and express his opinion upon the facts, and the expression of such an opinion, when no rule of law is incorrectly stated, and all matters of fact are ultimately submitted to the determination of the jury, cannot be reviewed on writ of error.””
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.