Rouse v. Hornsby’s Empirical Analysis
161 U.S. 588 · 1896
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1938 · most notably Arkadelphia Milling Co v. St Louis Southwestern Ry Co Hasty (1919), Gableman v. Peoria, Decatur & Evansville Railway Co. (1900)
2 federal appellate · 6 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedRouse v. Hornsby (from Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Tennessee v. Union & Planters' Bank · Texas & Pacific Railway Co. v. Cox · Rouse v. Letcher · Carey v. Houston T C Ry Co · Gregory v. Van Ee
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““As the final order below was affirmed by the Circuit Court of Appeals, we are not called upon to entertain jurisdiction simply because that affirmance was entered on the writ of error rather than the appeal.” Rouse v. Hornsby, 161 U. S. 588 , 16 Sup. Ct. 588 , 40 L. Ed. 817 .”
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.