Menge v. The Madrid’s Empirical Analysis
40 F. 677 · 1889
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1960
6 federal appellate · 3 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 · Bogart v. The Steamboat John Jay · The Steamer St. Lawrence · The Guiding Star
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Counsel for the mortgagees rely mainly upon the doctrine of stare decisis to support the claim of their clients. Their contention is, that the rule of law heretofore announced in this circuit should stand, because, as they assert, rights of property have been acquired under it and vested rights will he disturbed by any change. On the other hand, it is strenuously insisted by counsel for the material-men that the decisions of this circuit upon the general question under consideration are erroneous, and should not be followed. * * * The rule of stare decisis means, in general, that when a point has been once settled by judicial decision it forms a precedent for the guidance of courts in similar cases. * * * This rule should, in the main, he strictly adhered to. An adherence to it is necessary to preserve the certainty, the stability and the symmetry of our jurisprudence. Nevertheless there are occasions when a departure from it is rendered necessary in order to vindicate plain and obvious principles of law, and to remedy a continued injustice. _ These are the two grounds of justification in departing from a decision which has become a precedent.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The decisions of the circuit courts of the United Stales not being uniform upon the general question at issue in this case, it can hardly be said that any of them has become a rule of property, within the principle of the doctrine of stare decisis.””
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.