James Sim v. William Edenborn’s Empirical Analysis
242 U.S. 131 · 1916
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 9 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 82 later decisions (16 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2010 · most notably Black & White Taxicab & Transfer Co. v. Brown & Yellow Taxicab & Transfer Co. (1928), Hawks v. Hamill (1933)
23 federal appellate · 9 district · 5 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
reviewedEdenborn v. Sim (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Burgess v. Seligman · Kuhn v. Fairmont Coal Co. · Lankford v. Platte Iron Works Co. · Bienville Water Supply Co. v. Mobile · Neblett v. Macfarland
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.
““This court luis m'iiny times considered how far federal tribunals, when undertaking to enforce laws of the states, should follow opinions of their courts. The authorities were reviewed and rule announced in Burgess v. Seligman, 107 U. S. 20 , 33, 34, 35 [ 2 Sup. Ct. 10 , 27 L. Ed. 359 ], which‘declared that, as to doctrines of commercial law and general jurisprudence, the former exercise their own judgment; ‘but even in such cases, for the sake of harmony and to avoid confusion, the federal courts will lean towards ail agreement of views with the state courts, if the question seems to them balanced with doubt.’ * * - The conclusions of the Court of Appeals in Heckseher’s Case [ 203 N. Y. 210 , 96 N. E. 441 ], are not in direct conflict with any declared views of this court, and some expressions in our former opinions tend to support them.””
3 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.