Arms v. Ayer’s Empirical Analysis
1901
Citation profile
1 district · 59 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently February 1972 · most notably Vandalia Railroad v. Stillwell (1914), Rouse v. Thompson (1907)
1 district · 59 state decisions — followed in 20 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 McRickard v. . Flint · Willy v. . Mulledy · Owners of Lands v. People ex rel. Stookey · People ex rel. Klokke v. Wright · Dowling v. Lancashire Insurance
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In the execution of the law the inspector of factories is given a discretion as to the number, location, material and construction of such escapes in each and every building. We are unable to see in what way the act, thus understood and construed, delegates to the inspector of factories legislative power.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hamann v. Lawrence
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.