Briggs v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis
171 U.S. 466 · 1898
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 3 district · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2014 · most notably St Louis San Francisco Texas Railway Company v. Maude Seale (1913), Price v. Forrest (1899)
11 federal appellate · 3 district · 23 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 McArthur v. Scott · Stewart v. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad · Erwin v. United States · Cornelius Comegys and Andrew Pettit v. Ambrose Vasse · White v. Butler
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an act, for the relief of the estate of C. M. Briggs, deceased,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Price v. Forrest
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.