Falk v. Robertson’s Empirical Analysis
137 U.S. 225 · 1890
Citation profile
6 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2017 · most notably Stebbins v. Riley (1925), United States v. Bernard Citroen (1912)
6 federal appellate ·
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 Hartranft v. Wiegmann · United States v. Moore · Case v. Beauregard · Nelson Elliott v. Samuel Swartwout · Brown v. United States
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Leaf tobacco, of which eighty-five per cent, is of the requisite size and of the necessary fineness of texture-to be suitable for wrappers, and of which more than one hundred leaves are required to weigh a pound,- — if not stemmed, seventy-five cents per pound; if stemmed, one dollar per pound.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Soby v. Hubbard · In re Blumlein
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.