Quinn v. Dougherty’s Empirical Analysis
30 F.2d 749 · 1929
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1979
5 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Relies on Mugler v. State of Kansas State of Kansas Tufts · Munn v. Illinois · Slaughter-House Cases the Butchers' Benevolent Association of New Orleans v. The Crescent City Live · Crowley v. Christensen · Beer Company v. Massachusetts
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“perpetually dedicated and set apart as a public park or pleasure ground for the benefit and enjoyment of the people of the United States . . .,”
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.