Nelden v. Clark’s Empirical Analysis
1899
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently August 2019
3 federal appellate · 8 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 Crane v. Reeder · Mayor of Baltimore v. Porter · State v. Mayor of Jersey City · State v. Grady · Brady v. Mayor, Aldermen & Commonalty
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If the later act covers the subject-matter of the former, and makes different provisions, which are contradictory and inconsistent with it, so that the two acts cannot stand together in harmony, then it may be said the one repeals the other in so far as it is inconsistent and contradictory.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“When a statute enumerates the persons and things to be affected by its provisions, there is an implied exclusion of others.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.