Fairmont Creamery Co v. State of Minnesota’s Empirical Analysis
275 U.S. 70 · 1927
Citation profile
103 federal appellate · 27 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 215 later decisions (19 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2006 · most notably Hutto v. Finney (1979), Fitzpatrick v. Bitzer (1976)
103 federal appellate · 27 district · 16 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 Phillips v. Negley · Ex Parte Charles Sibbald v. The United States · Fairmont Creamery Co v. State of Minnesota · Reeside v. Walker
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 215 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“when [it is] a party to litigation in this Court . . . .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Welsch v. Likins · Hutto v. Finney“If specific statutory authority [for an award of costs] is needed, it is found in § 254 of the Judicial Code . . .. It provides that there shall be 'taxed against the losing party in each and every cause pending in the Supreme Court' the cost of printing the record, except when the judgment is against the United States. This exception of the United States in the section with its emphatic inclusion of every other litigant shows that a state as litigant must pay the costs of printing, if it loses, in every case, civil or criminal. These costs constitute a large part of all the costs. The section certainly constitutes pro tanto statutory authority to impose costs generally against a state if defeated.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hutto v. Finney“Costs in criminal proceedings are a creature of statute, and a court has no power to award them unless some statute has conferred it.”
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.