Akerly v. Vilas’s Empirical Analysis
1869
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently October 1948
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 15 state decisions — followed in 10 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.
Relationships
Relies on Washington Bridge Company v. William Stewart · Kanouse v. Martin · Parker v. Pomeroy · Lessee of Miles v. Fisher · Luning v. State
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The word ‘hearing’ has an established meaning as applicable to equity cases. It means the same thing in those cases that the word ‘trial’ does in cases of law, and the words ‘final hearing’ have long been used to designate the trial of an equity case upon the merits as distinguished from the hearing of any preliminary questions arising in the cause, and which are termed interlocutory.” ,”
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.