Movius v. Lee’s Empirical Analysis
30 F. 298 · 1887
Citation profile
3 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1943
3 federal appellate ·
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 Kennedy v. Gibson · Brinckerhoff v. . Bostwick · Brinckerhoff v. . Bostwick · Foster v. President of the Essex Bank · Johnston v. Laflin
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“or duly authorized officers or agents, subject to law;”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Briggs v. Spaulding
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.