Vane v. Newcombe’s Empirical Analysis
132 U.S. 220 · 1889
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 10 district · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 77 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2012 · most notably United States v. American Trucking Associations (1940), Louisville St Co v. Wilson (1891)
17 federal appellate · 10 district · 25 state decisions — followed in 11 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 Barton v. Barbour · Fosdick v. Schall · Union Trust Co of New York v. Illinois Midland Ry Co Borg · Platt v. Union Pacific Railroad · United States v. Union Pacific Railroad
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 77 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In cases of doubt or uncertainty, acts in pari materia, passed either before or after, and whether repealed or still in force may be referred to in order to discern the intent of- the Legislature in the use of particular terms, or in the enactment of particular provisions. * * * ” Vane v. Newcombe, 132 U. S. 220 , 235, 10 Sup. Ct. 60 , 33 L. Ed. 310 ; Stout v. Board of Commissioners, 107 Ind. 343 , 348, 8 N. E. 222 ; Tiger v. Western Investment Co., 221 U. S. 286 , 306, 31 Sup. Ct. 578 , 55 L. Ed. 738 .”
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.