Quimby v. Boyd’s Empirical Analysis
128 U.S. 488 · 1888
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1915
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.
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the other alleged errors involved questions, either of fact, or of state and not of Federal law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Dower v. Richards
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.