Covert v. Sargent’s Empirical Analysis
42 F. 298 · 1890
Citation profile
2 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently April 1935
2 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 Elizabeth v. Pavement Co. · Burdell v. Denig · Packet Company v. Sickles
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.
““As complainant has not recovered damages, he must be content with such indemnity for violation of his rights as he will receive by recovery of the profits which the master has found were realized by the defendant.””
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.