Fish v. . Vanderlip’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently November 1970 · most notably Watts v. Swiss Bank Corp. (1970), Bomar v. Keyes (1947)
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 32 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedFish v. Vanderlip
Relationships
Relies on Bigelow v. Old Dominion Copper Mining & Smelting Co. · Forsyth v. City of Hammond · Old Dominion Copper Mining & Smelting Co. v. Bigelow · Castle v. . Noyes · Woods
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““One who, for his own interest, joins in the defense of a suit to which he is not a party of record, is as much concluded by the judgment as if he had been a party thereto, provided his conduct in that respect was open and avowed or otherwise well known to the opposite party.””
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.