Evans v. Freeman’s Empirical Analysis
140 F. 419 · 1905
Citation profile
2 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently October 1973
2 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 Wight v. Nicholson · Farnsworth v. Duffner · Fisher v. Hestonville, Mantua & Fairmount Passenger Railway Co. · Lance v. Bonnell · Collins v. Cronin
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We, the undersigned, jury in the above stated case, find in favor of the plaintiff for 87,273.33. and against Henry G. Freeman, Jr., one of the defendants.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. James v. Evans
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.