Ferris v. . Sterling’s Empirical Analysis
1915
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 170 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 197 later decisions — most recently February 1975 · most notably Potts v. . Pardee (1917), Grant v. Knepper (1927)
27 federal appellate · 170 state decisions — followed in 22 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedBrayer v. Fenn
Relationships
Relies on People v. . Katz · Norris v. . Kohler · Vonderhorst Brewing Co. v. Amrhine · Kayser v. Van Nest · Knust v. Bullock
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 197 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The license number of the car, coupled with evidence that the defendant held the license, was prima facie proof that the defendant was the owner."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sexton v. Lauman
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.