Lawton v. Comer’s Empirical Analysis
40 F. 480 · 1889
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1979
4 federal appellate · 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.
Relationships
Relies on The Daniel Ball · United States v. Reese · The Lottawanna · United States v. Steffens · Gloucester Ferry Co v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“all sea-going vessels, and also to all vessels used on lakes or rivers or in inland navigation . . . .”
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.