Allen v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
173 U.S. 389 · 1899
Citation profile
35 federal appellate · 3 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 80 later decisions (11 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1979 · most notably Massachusetts v. Mellon (1923), United States v. Felipe Sandoval (1913)
35 federal appellate · 3 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 The Silvia · United States v. Realty Co. · Tide Water Oil Co. v. United States · Briggs v. Walker
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 80 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“commonly used to denote a person who raises agricultural crops, and puts them in a condition for the market.”
4 later decisions 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.