Electric Co. v. Dow’s Empirical Analysis
166 U.S. 489 · 1897
Citation profile
5 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions (12 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1998 · most notably Ashwander v. Tennessee Valley Authority (1936), Block v. Hirsh (1921)
5 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 Eustis v. Bolles · Beaupre v. Noyes · John Clay v. Abraham Smith · Eustis v. Bolles
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We agree with the Supreme Court of New Hampshire in thinking that the plaintiff in error, by availing itself of the power conferred by the statute, and joining in a trial for the assessment of the damages, is precluded from denying the validity of that provision which prescribes that fifty per cent shall be added to the amount of the verdict. The act confers a privilege, which the plaintiff in error was at liberty to exercise or not as it thought fit.” 166 U.S. at 490 .”
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.