Christian v. Dripps’s Empirical Analysis
1857
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently March 1972
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 8 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.
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A planing machine, lathes, and vices in a machine shop or car factory, are fixtures, and as such belong to the realty, irrespective of the manner in whieh they are attached to the building in whieh they are used, if they were a necessary part of the machinery for carrying on the business.””
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.