In re Silvies River’s Empirical Analysis
199 F. 495 · 1912
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 7 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently May 2005
2 federal appellate · 7 district · 1 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 Plowden Weston v. The City Council of Charleston · Torrence v. Shedd · Gaines v. Fuentes · Hyde v. Ruble · Upshur County v. Rich
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“all suits of a civil nature, at common law or in equity”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The phrase `suits at common law and in equity' embraces not only ordinary actions and suits, but includes all the proceedings carried on in the ordinary law and equity tribunals as distinguished from proceedings in military, admiralty, and ecclesiastical courts. It is a very comprehensive term, and is understood to apply to any proceedings in a court of justice by which an individual pursues a remedy which the law affords.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The nature of the right or use on which the claim is based.”
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.