Lawrence v. Allen’s Empirical Analysis
48 U.S. 785 · 1849
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 10 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions (8 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2000 · most notably Hartranft v. Wiegmann (1887), State v. American Sugar Refining Co. (1902)
7 federal appellate · 10 district · 8 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.
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“making an.article either by hand or machinery into a new form, capable of being used And designed- to be used in ordinary life.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Seeberger v. Castro“braces, suspenders, webbing or other fabrics, composed wholly or in part of. india-rubber.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Junge v. Hedden
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.