Fox v. Haarstick’s Empirical Analysis
156 U.S. 674 · 1895
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 2 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions (15 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 1955 · most notably Thompson v. Consolidated Gas Utilities Corp. (1937), De Castro v. Board of Commissioners (1944)
13 federal appellate · 2 district · 11 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.
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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If, then, those findings are to he accepted as justified by the evidence, it is difficult to see how the defendant was injured by the failure of the court to pass, in express terms, on those averments of the answer now urged. * * * In other1 words, the plaintiff’s affirmative case is wholly inconsistent with the truth of the defendant’s case, and the conclusive establishment of the truth of the former is1 necessarily a complete negative of the ease asserted by the defendant.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““If, then, those findings are to be accepted as justified by the evidence, it is difficult to say how the defendant was injured by the failure of the court to pass, in express terms, on those averments of the answer now urged.....In other words, the plaintiff’s affirmative case is wholly inconsistent with the truth of the defendant’s case, and the conclusive establishment of the truth of the former is necessarily a complete negative of the case asserted by the defendant. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bowers v. Cottrell
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.