Pugh v. Bluff City Excursion Co.’s Empirical Analysis
177 F. 399 · 1910
Citation profile
31 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 1970 · most notably Fairmount Glass Works v. Cub Fork Coal Co. (1933), Morton Butler Timber Co. v. United States (1937)
31 federal appellate ·
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If it is necessary to correct a mistrial, it becomes a positive duty to set aside the erroneous proceeding and grant a new trial; and such, we think, was the case here.””
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.