Crawford v. Neal’s Empirical Analysis
144 U.S. 585 · 1892
Citation profile
141 federal appellate · 12 district · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 247 later decisions (27 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2014 · most notably United States v. Detroit Timber & Lumber Co. (1906), Morgan v. Daniels (1894)
141 federal appellate · 12 district · 22 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 Tilghman v. Proctor · Kimberly v. Arms · Barney v. Baltimore City · Peters v. Bain
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 247 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“and to report to this courtj his findings of fact and his conclusions of law thereon.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““In tbe present case, tbe consent given to tbe order of reference was conditioned by tbe terms of the order itself, which, as we have seen, limited the functions of the master to the taking of testimony and reporting it to the court together with his findings of fact and conclusions of law for the advisement of the court.””
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.