Consolidated Rendering Company v. State of Vermont C’s Empirical Analysis
207 U.S. 541 · 1908
Citation profile
59 federal appellate · 16 district · 79 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 249 later decisions (24 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1991 · most notably Silverthorne Lumber Co. v. United States (1920), Berger v. New York (1967)
59 federal appellate · 16 district · 79 state decisions — followed in 23 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 Boyd v. United States · Edwin Hale v. William Henkel · Counselman v. Hitchcock · Chicago Co v. City of Chicago · Brown v. Walker
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 249 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We see no reason why all such books, papers and correspondence which related to the subject of inquiry, and were described with reasonable detail, should not be called for and the company directed to produce them. Otherwise the state would be compelled to designate each particular paper which it desired, which presupposes an accurate knowledge of such papers, which the tribunal desiring the papers would probably rarely, if ever, have.” (Emphasis mine.)”
2 later decisions 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.