Smith v. Chicago & N. W. Ry. Co.’s Empirical Analysis
38 F. 321 · 1889
Citation profile
1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently May 1947
1 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.
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.
““'‘The testimony of any witness may be taken in any civil cause depending in a district or circuit court by deposition do bene esse, wlien the witness lives at a greater distance from tlie place of trial than one hundred miles,” etc.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hunter v. Russell““It is tlie duty of the prevailing party, as in cases of damages, to so conduct himself that the amount of the costs or damages shall not be nnnocessarily increased.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hunter v. Russell
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.