Illinois Cent. R. v. Crail’s Empirical Analysis
31 F.2d 111 · 1929
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently April 1959
8 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 Messenger v. Anderson · Thompson v. Maxwell Landgrant Railway Co · Allore v. Jewell · Supervisors v. Kennicott · Clark v. Keith
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.
“In the absence of statute the phrase `law of the case,' as applied to the effect of previous orders on the later action of the Court rendering them in the same case, merely expresses the practice of Courts generally to refuse to reopen what has been decided, not a limit to their power.”
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.