Furrer v. Ferris’s Empirical Analysis
145 U.S. 132 · 1892
Citation profile
162 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 202 later decisions (16 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1948 · most notably United States v. United States Gypsum Co. (1948), Morgan v. Daniels (1894)
162 federal appellate · 6 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 Tilghman v. Proctor · Kimberly v. Arms · Crawford v. Neal · Jones v. East Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia Railroad
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 202 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The causé was referred to a master to take testimony therein, ‘and to report to this court his findings of fact and his conclusions of law thereon.’ This lie did, and the court, after a review of the evidence, concurred in his findings and conclusions. Clearly, then, they are to be taken as presumptively correct, and unless some obvious error has intervened in the application ol’ the law, or some serious or important mistake has been made in the consideration of the evidence, the decree should be permitted to stand.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Morgan v. Daniels · Cheney v. Bilby
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.