Dimick v. Schiedt’s Empirical Analysis
293 U.S. 474 · 1935
Citation profile
678 federal appellate · 117 district · 420 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,723 later decisions (55 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably Parklane Hosiery Co. v. Shore (1979), MARKMAN Et Al. v. WESTVIEW INSTRUMENTS, INC., Et Al. (1996)
678 federal appellate · 117 district · 420 state decisions — followed in 47 states
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
reviewedSchiedt v. Dimick (from First Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Hurtado v. People of the State of California · Patton v. United States · Gasoline Products Co. v. Champlin Refining Co. · Albert Twining v. State of New Jersey
Cited together with Beacon Theaters Inc v. C Westover · Tull v. United States · Ross v. Bernhard · Baltimore & Carolina Line, Inc. v. Redman · Dairy Queen, Inc. v. Wood
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 1,723 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Maintenance of the jury as a fact-finding body is of such importance and occupies so firm a place in our history and jurisprudence that any seeming curtailment of the right to a jury trial should be scrutinized with the utmost care.”
91 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]n suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved.”
24 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In order to ascertain the scope and meaning of the Seventh Amendment, resort must be had to the appropriate rules of the common law established at the time of the adoption of that constitutional provision in 1791.”
5 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.