Bailey v. Sundberg’s Empirical Analysis
49 F. 583 · 1892
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 8 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1995 · most notably Continental Grain Company v. The Fbl-585 (1960), Central Hudson Gas Electric Corporation v. Empresa Naviera Santa Sa (1995)
9 federal appellate · 8 district · 1 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 Pennoyer v. Neff · Windsor v. McVeigh · Robbins v. Chicago City · Robert Vandewater v. Edward Mills · Litchfield v. Crane
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Exceptional circumstances will sometimes lead a court of admiralty to pronounce a claim stale after a lapse of time less than the legal statutory period of limitation. Where there is nothing exceptional in the case, the court will govern itself by the analogies of the common-law limitations.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“successive relationship to the same rights of property.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.