Fisher v. Jansen’s Empirical Analysis
1889
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently August 1965 · most notably Zibbell v. Southern Pacific Co. (1911), Chicago & Erie Railroad v. Meech (1896)
7 federal appellate · 40 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 City of Chicago v. Major · City of Chicago v. Scholten · Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad v. Warner · Illinois Central Railroad v. Read · City of Chicago v. Martin
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In this, as in all other cases, it was proper for the jury to •exercise their own judgment upon the facts in proof, by connecting them with their own knowledge and experience, which they are supposed to possess in common with the generality of mankind.””
1 later decision 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.