Chateaugay Ore & Iron Co. v. Blake’s Empirical Analysis
144 U.S. 476 · 1892
Citation profile
69 federal appellate · 11 district · 38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 140 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 1990 · most notably Holder v. United States (1893), Reed v. State (1978)
69 federal appellate · 11 district · 38 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 Inland & Seaboard Coasting Co. v. Tolson · Vicksburg v. O'Brien · Montana Railway Co. v. Warren · Hostetter v. Park · Connecticut Mut Life Ins Co v. Union Trust Co of New York
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 140 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“its ruling thereon will not be disturbed unless clearly erroneous.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Whether a witness called, to testify to any matter of opinion lias such qualifications and knowledge as to make his testimony admissible is a preliminary question for the judge presiding at the trial; and his decision of it is conclusive, unless clearly shown to be erroneous in matter of law.””
1 later decision 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.