Standard Oil Company v. Abraham Brown’s Empirical Analysis
218 U.S. 78 · 1910
Citation profile
32 federal appellate · 3 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently March 1969 · most notably Twachtman v. Connelly (1939), Northern Pac. Ry. Co. v. Maerkl (1912)
32 federal appellate · 3 district · 11 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
reviewedthe decision below (from District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Baltimore Co v. Baugh · Randall v. Baltimore O R · Wilmington Star Mining Company v. Minnie Fulton · Kreigh v. Westinghouse, Church, Kerr & Co. · Nash v. Towne
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Undoubtedly, the rule is that the proofs must correspond with the allegations in the declaration, but the requirement in that behalf is fulfilled, if the substance of the declaration is proved. * * * Formerly, the rule in that respect was applied with great strictness, but the modern decisions are more liberal and reasonable. * * * Recent statutes in the states also confer a liberal discretion upon courts in allowing amendments to pleadings, and those statutes, together with the change they have superinduced in the course of judicial decision, may be said to have established the general rule in the state tribunals that no variances between the allegations of a pleading and the proofs offered to sustain it, shall be deemed material, unless it be of a character to mislead the opposite party in maintaining his action or defense on the merits.””
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.