Mygatt v. Knapp’s Empirical Analysis
37 F. 209 · 1889
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 7 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 1977
7 federal appellate · 7 district ·
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 The Lottawanna · Insurance Company v. Dunham · The New Jersey Steam Navigation Company v. The Merchants' Bank of Boston · Ex parte Easton · The St. Jago de Cuba
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Hubbard v. Roach, and The Ole Oleson [(C. C.) 20 Fed. 384 ], were ruled by my learned predecessor contrary to his own convictions, as he declares in the last-named case, and in obedience to supposed weight of authority.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Davidson v. Plummer
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.