Oakes v. Mase’s Empirical Analysis
165 U.S. 363 · 1897
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 3 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1939 · most notably Erie Co v. Tompkins (1938), Black & White Taxicab & Transfer Co. v. Brown & Yellow Taxicab & Transfer Co. (1928)
27 federal appellate · 3 district · 5 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
reviewedthe decision below (from Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Northern Pac Co v. Peterson · Northern Pacific Railroad v. Hambly · Central Railroad v. Keegan · Western Union Tel Co v. State of Indiana · Northern Pac Co v. Charless
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““As this ruling of the court of last resort of the state of Montana, interpreting the Constitution and laws of that state, is binding here, the sole ground upon which the Circuit Court of Appeals rested its judgment is destroyed.””
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.