National Foundry & Pipe Works v. Oconto Water Supply Co.’s Empirical Analysis
183 U.S. 216 · 1902
Citation profile
39 federal appellate · 5 district · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 104 later decisions (22 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1991 · most notably Bigelow v. Old Dominion Copper Mining & Smelting Co. (1912), Reed v. Allen (1932)
39 federal appellate · 5 district · 22 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Last Chance Min Co v. Tyler Min Co · Dowell v. Applegate · Hancock National Bank v. Farnum · Pittsburgh St Ry Co v. Long Island Loan Trust Co
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 104 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is elementary that, if from the decree in a cause there be uncertainty as to what was really decided, resort may be had to the pleadings and to the opinion of the court in order to throw light upon the subject.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Brown v. Fletcher
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.