United States v. Zeisler’s Empirical Analysis
30 F. 499 · 1887
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1950
1 federal appellate · 1 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 Dunn v. People · Thomas v. People · Governors of the Almshouse of New York v. . Am. Art Union
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If these drawings determined only the time when these bonds would be paid, I should say that the mere determining of that time by lot or drawing would not give theta the characteristics of a lottery.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.