Flanders v. Coleman’s Empirical Analysis
250 U.S. 223 · 1919
Citation profile
54 federal appellate · 15 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 115 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2010 · most notably Binderup v. Pathe Exchange, Inc. (1923), Taubel-Scott-Kitzmiller Co. v. Fox (1924)
54 federal appellate · 15 district · 2 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
reviewedFlanders v. Coleman
Relationships
Relies on Fred Bardes v. First National Bank of Hawarden Iowa · Stellwagen v. Clum · Harris v. First National Bank of Mt. Pleasant · Collett v. Adams
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 115 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If there be enough of substance in them to require the court to hear and determine the cause, then jurisdiction should have been entertained.””
4 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.