Post v. Pulaski County’s Empirical Analysis
49 F. 628 · 1892
Citation profile
6 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently September 1913
6 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 Chicago Indianapolis Louisville Railway Company v. Patrick McGuire
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This bond is one of two hundred of like tenor and amount of the same issue, and issued pursuant to an order of the county court of said county, authorized by a majority of the legal votes cast at an election held in said county pursuant to law on the 5th day of November, A. D. 1867. This bond is also issued under the provisions of ‘An act to incorporate the Cairo & Vincennes Railroad Company,’ approved March 6, 1867, and under the provisions of an act to amend said act, approved February 9, 1869, also under tbe provisions of an act entitled ‘An act to fund and provide for tbe payment of tbe railroad debts of counties, townships, cities and towns,’ approved April 16, 1869, and is in part payment of a subscription to tbe capital stock of tbe Cairo & Vincennes Railroad Company, in tbe total sum of one hundred thousand dollars.””
2 later decisions 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.