Copeland v. Hines’s Empirical Analysis
269 F. 361 · 1920
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Milwaukee and Saint Paul Railway Company v. Kellogg · Patton v. Texas & Pacific Railway Co. · Norfolk & Western Railway Co. v. Earnest · Great Northern Railway Co. v. Wiles · Union Pacific Railroad v. Hadley
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A mere conjecture standing upon a basis of uncertain inference does not make substantial evidence.””
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.