City of New York v. William Sage’s Empirical Analysis
239 U.S. 57 · 1915
Citation profile
59 federal appellate · 21 district · 62 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 273 later decisions (48 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2016 · most notably United States v. Miller (1943), Olson v. United States (1934)
59 federal appellate · 21 district · 62 state decisions — followed in 18 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
reviewedCity of New York v. Sage (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Simpson v. Shepard · United States v. Chandler-Dunbar Water Power Co. · Shoemaker v. United States · Burgess v. Seligman · Boom Company v. Patterson
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 273 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it fairly may be believed that a purchaser in fair market conditions would have given,”
7 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.