Solomon v. Shuell’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
2 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently February 2018
2 district · 16 state decisions
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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1732
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In short, it is manifest that in this case those reports are not for the systematic conduct of the enterprise as a railroad business. Unlike payrolls, accounts receivable, accounts payable, bills of lading and the like, these reports are calculated for use essentially in the court, not in the business. Their primary utility is in litigating, not in railroading.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“improperly admitted hearsay evidence constitutes harmless error when it is merely cumulative of other properly admitted evidence”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. People v. Gursky“the primary rationale for the exclusion of hearsay is the inability to test the reliability of out-of-court statements[.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. People v. Gursky
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.