Graves v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1901
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 2 district · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1966 · most notably United States v. Peoni (1938), DesGeorges v. Grainger (1966)
14 federal appellate · 2 district · 20 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 Commonwealth v. Peaslee · Milliken v. Pratt · Commonwealth v. Kennedy · Hanauer v. Doane · Hill v. Spear
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It may be,” he says, “that, as in the case of attempts, the line of proximity will vary somewhat according to the gravity of the evil apprehended.””
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.