In Re Durrant’s Empirical Analysis
169 U.S. 39 · 1898
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 4 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2020 · most notably Howard v. Fleming (1903), Rumford Chemical Works v. Hygienic Chemical Co. (1909)
18 federal appellate · 4 district · 9 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 Nishimura Ekiu v. United States · Spies v. Illinois · Kohl v. Lehlback · Andrews v. Swartz · James Hyatt v. People of the State of New York Charles E Corkran
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The object of the writ is to ascertain whether the prisoner applying for it can legally be detained, and it is the duty of the court, justice, or judge granting the writ, on hearing, ‘to dispose of the party as law and justice may require.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Low Kwai v. Backus
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.