Adams Express Co. v. Denver & R. G. Ry. Co.’s Empirical Analysis
16 F. 712 · 1883
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently July 1977
3 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 John Clarke Administrator of Willard Wetmore v. Henry Mathewson · Morgan's heirs v. Morgan · Walter Dunn et al. v. Henry Clarke et al. · Myers v. Union Pacific Ry. 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“legislative power to be exercised by the territorial legislature is the legislative power of the Territory, not that of the United States. . . . Its laws, unless set aside by congress or the courts, are the laws of the territory; they are not laws of the United States.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Eleanor F. Mailloux v. Gordon E. Mailloux and Marianas Pacific, Inc., and Chase Manhattan Bank (National Association), South Acres Development Co., a Partnership v. Chase Manhattan Bank (National Association) · Eleanor F. Mailloux v. Gordon E. Mailloux and Marianas Pacific, Inc., and Chase Manhattan Bank (National Association), South Acres Development Co., a Partnership v. Chase Manhattan Bank (National Association)
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.