Credits Commutation Company v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
177 U.S. 311 · 1900
Citation profile
177 federal appellate · 6 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 269 later decisions (41 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2006 · most notably Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen v. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad (1947), Toledo Scale Co. v. Computing Scale Co. (1923)
177 federal appellate · 6 district · 10 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Ex parte Cutting · Mary Ann Connor Alias Mary Ann Van Ness Tenant v. Samuel a Peugh's Lessee · Guion v. Liverpool, London, & Globe Insurance
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 269 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`When such action is taken, that is to say, when leave to intervene in an equity case is asked and refused, the rule, so far as we are aware, is well settled that the order thus made denying leave to intervene is not regarded as a final determination of the merits of the claim on which the intervention is based, but leaves the petitioner at full liberty to assert his rights in any other appropriate form of proceeding. Such an order not only lacks the finality which is necessary to support an appeal, but it is usually said of it that it cannot be reviewed, because it merely involves an exercise of the discretionary powers of the trial court.'”
7 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.