Schutz v. Jordan’s Empirical Analysis
141 U.S. 213 · 1891
Citation profile
35 federal appellate · 18 district · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 97 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2007 · most notably United States v. National Exchange Bank (1926), Crude Oil Corp. v. Commissioner (1947)
35 federal appellate · 18 district · 17 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 Rosenthal v. Walker · Howard v. . Daly · Henderson v. Carbondale Coal & Coke Co. · Gaines v. Miller · People's Bank v. National Bank
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 97 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is not conclusive, but subject to control and limitation by other facts.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“if a letter properly directed is proved to have been either put into the post office or delivered to the postman, it is presumed, from the known course of business in the post office department, that it reached its destination at the regular time, and was received by the person to whom it was addressed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rios v. Nicholson
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.