Elder v. Ellerbe’s Empirical Analysis
1914
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently October 2003 · most notably Frost-Johnson Lumber Co. v. Salling's Heirs (1922), Board of Com'rs of Caddo Levee Dist. v. Pure Oil Co. (1928)
6 federal appellate · 36 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 Rives v. Gulf Refining Co. · J. F. Ball & Bro. Lumber Co. v. Simms Lumber Co. · Gardere v. Blanton · McGee v. Louisiana Lumber Co.
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“what is produced and reproduced from time to time or in successive seasons,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.