Garrison v. . Howe’s Empirical Analysis
1858
Citation profile
1 district · 63 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1939 · most notably Huntington v. Attrill (1892), Chase v. Curtis (1885)
1 district · 63 state decisions — followed in 14 states
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.
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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the statute were simply a remedial one, it might be said that the plaintiff’s case was within its equity; for the general object of the law doubtless was, beside enforcing the duty of making reports for the benefit of all concerned, to enable parties proposing to deal with the corporation to see' whether they could safely do so.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“But the provision is highly penal, and the rules of law do not permit us to extend it by construction to cases not fairly within the language.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.