Boss v. Hagan’s Empirical Analysis
261 F. 254 · 1919
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently May 1985
5 federal appellate · 11 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.
Relationships
Relies on St Louis Ry Co v. McBride · Central Trust Co. v. McGeorge · Arroyo Ditch & Water Co. v. Superior Court · 35 App. D.C. 218 - Degge v. Hitchcock · 14 App. D.C. 384 - Guarantee Savings, Loan & Investment Co. v. Pendleton
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The giving of the additional day was an advantage to the defendant; of this he has no just cause of complaint.” Boss v. Hagan, 261 Fed. 251 , 256, 49 App. D. C. 106 , 108 ( 8 A. L. R. 1508 ).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McCoy v. Duehay
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.