Sayward v. Denny’s Empirical Analysis
158 U.S. 180 · 1895
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 3 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 114 later decisions (47 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 1982 · most notably Chicago Co v. City of Chicago (1897), Missouri Ry Co v. Haber (1898)
3 federal appellate · 3 district · 10 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 Miller v. State of Texas · Gross v. United States Mortgage Co. · Loeber v. Schroeder · Ex Parte Lennon
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 114 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The right on which the party relies must have been called to the attention of the court, in some proper way, and the decision of the court must have been against the right claimed. Hoyt v. Sheldon, 1 Black, 518 ; Maxwell v. Newhold, 18 How. 511 , 515. Or, at all events, it must appear from the record, by clear and necessary intendmént, that the Federal question was ’directly involved so that the state court could not have given judgment without deciding it.”
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.