Straus v. Yeager’s Empirical Analysis
1911
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently December 2014 · most notably Maytag Company v. Alward (1962), Four Seasons Manufacturing, Inc. v. 1001 Coliseum, LLC (2007)
1 federal appellate · 48 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
Relies on Pierson v. . Crooks · Loud v. Pomona Land & Water Co. · Keeler v. Clifford · Daniel Boardman v. The Lessees of Reed and Ford M'Call · Jordan v. Indianapolis Water Co.
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This maxim, like all rules of construction, is applicable under certain conditions to determine the intention of the lawmaker when it is not otherwise manifest. Under these conditions it leads to safe and satisfactory conclusions; but otherwise the expression of one or more things is not a negation or exclusion of other things.””
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.