In re United Button Co.’s Empirical Analysis
140 F. 495 · 1906
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2004
6 federal appellate · 1 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 Wetmore v. Markoe · Crawford v. Burke · Horace Dunbar v. Lottie E Dunbar · Hutchinson v. Otis · Steamship Company v. Joliffe
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A statutory obligation 'which does not rest upon the consent of the parties Is clearly quasi contractual in its nature.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(¡8) are liabilities for obtaining property by false pretenses- or false representations, or for willful and malicious injuries to the person or property of another, or for alimony due or to become due, or for maintenance or support of wife or child, or for seduction of an unmarried female, or for criminal conversation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Schall v. Camors“pursuant to application to the court, be liquidated in such manner as it shall direct, and may thereafter be proved and allowed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Schall v. Camors
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.