Arbuckle v. Blackburn’s Empirical Analysis
191 U.S. 405 · 1903
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 3 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions (18 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1953 · most notably Towne v. Eisner (1918), Albert Shulthis v. D a McDougal (1912)
13 federal appellate · 3 district · 6 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
reviewedArbuckle v. Blackburn (from Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Osborn v. President Directors and Company of the Bank of the United States · Smyth v. Ames · Powell v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · Gloucester Ferry Co v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · Harry Gundling v. City of Chicago
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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The suggested controversy was purely hypothetical, and based the supposed constitutional objections on the contingency that, on issues of fact, it miglit be judicially determined that Ariosa came within the statute, which complainants denied.””
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.