Paton v. Majors’s Empirical Analysis
46 F. 210 · 1891
Citation profile
2 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently May 1914
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 Buzard v. Houston · Parkersburg v. Brown · Litchfield v. Ballou · Ambler v. Choteau
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Since, under the Revised Statutes of United States (section 869), either party may call the other as a witness, and, by subpoena duces tecum, require him to produce books and papers, the complainant cannot give jurisdiction to a court of equity, in a proceeding where his remedy is otherwise perfect at law, by asking for a discovery.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Brown v. McDonald
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.