Christie v. Patton’s Empirical Analysis
1906
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently March 1969 · most notably Jones v. Lanier (1916), Shannon v. Wisdom (1911)
2 federal appellate · 22 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 Howard v. East Tenn., Va. & Ga. Railroad · Pulliam v. Schimpf · Erwin v. Erwin · Montgomery Southern Railway Co. v. Matthews · Birmingham Warehouse & Elevator Co. v. Elyton Land Co.
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“⅜ * * while the contractors state in their letter that they would put on ; the work any number of teams the plaintiff cared to furnish, and give them ; work “ during the construction of locks 4, 5 and 6,” the word “ during ” does not \ necessarily mean that the employment would extend over the whole period of . construction. While one meaning ascribed to the word is “ throughout the course of,” it also means “ in time of“ in course of.””
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.