Cahn v. Reid’s Empirical Analysis
1885
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 55 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently September 1959 · most notably Stonemets v. Head (1913), Ware v. United States (1907)
1 federal appellate · 55 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 Wilbur v. Flood · Dunn v. White · Mooney v. Miller · Morgan v. . Skiddy · Melton v. Smith
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If in point of law the plaintiffs were entitled to such direction, the court erred in its refusal, although the direction afterwards given hy the court might, hy inference and argument, in the opinion of this court, he pressed to the same extent. For the party has the right to a direct and) positive instruction, and the jury are not to he left to believe in distinctions where none exist, or to reconcile propositions by mere argument and in ference. It would be a dangerous practice, and tend to mislead instead of enlightening a jury.””
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.