Parish v. . Wheeler’s Empirical Analysis
1860
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 1 district · 58 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 82 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1972 · most notably Central Transportation Co. v. Pullman's Palace Car Co. (1891), Thomas v. Railroad Co. (1879)
8 federal appellate · 1 district · 58 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.
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 82 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘ ‘ The executed dealings of corporations must be allowed to stand for and against both the parties, when the plainest rules of good faith so require.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“and all other personal property in any way belonging or appertaining- to the railroad of said company.”
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.