James v. Evans’s Empirical Analysis
149 F. 136 · 1906
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2003 · most notably Fairmount Glass Works v. Cub Fork Coal Co. (1933), Franklin Music Co. v. American Broadcasting Companies (1979)
17 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 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 Wiest v. Electric Traction Co. · Collins v. Cronin · Laverty v. Vanarsdale · Rowland v. Philadelphia · Minnich v. Lancaster & Lititz Electric Railway 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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The gist of the action is not the conspiracy charged, but the tort working damage to the plaintiff.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.