Michael Dooley v. James Pease’s Empirical Analysis
180 U.S. 126 · 1901
Citation profile
59 federal appellate · 10 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 100 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2022 · most notably United States v. Jefferson Electric Manufacturing Co. (1934), Sanders v. Leech (1946)
59 federal appellate · 10 district · 16 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 Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Pullman's Palace-Car Co v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · Hervey v. Rhode Island Locomotive Works · St. Louis v. Rutz · Runkle v. Burnham · Green v. Van Buskirk
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 100 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is equally well established that the courts of the United States regard and follow the policy of the state law in cases of this kind.””
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.