Teall v. Slaven’s Empirical Analysis
40 F. 774 · 1889
Citation profile
1 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 1949
1 federal appellate ·
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 Wood v. Carpenter · Speidel v. Henrici · Badger v. Badger · Sullivan v. Portland and Kennebec Railroad Company · Godden v. Kimmell
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It will be observed, also, that there is no averment that, during the long period over which the transactions referred to extended, the plaintiff ever made or caused to be made the slightest inquiry in relation to either of them. The judgments confessed were of record, and he knew it. It could not have been difficult to ascertain, if the facts were so, that they were shams.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rhino v. Emery
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.