Carr v. Fife’s Empirical Analysis
156 U.S. 494 · 1895
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 12 district · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 89 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2016 · most notably United States v. American Bell Telephone Co. (1897), Koenigsberger v. Richmond Silver Min Co Richmond Silver Min Co (1895)
23 federal appellate · 12 district · 17 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 St.louis Smelting and Refining Company v. Kemp. · Lee v. Johnson
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 89 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The fact that a Circuit Judge, prior to his appointmént, had been counsel for one of the parties in matters not connected with the case on trial, does, not disqualify him from trying the cause.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Of course, in the absence of fraud and imposition, the findings and decision of the land office cannot be reviewed as to the facts involved, and the court below would not have been warranted in interfering with the title of the patentee and his vendees. 17”
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.