Sessions v. Gould’s Empirical Analysis
49 F. 855 · 1892
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently July 1930
6 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 White v. Heath
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(1) The plate, O, of a trunk catch or fastening, when the said plate has cast thereon one or more pins or posts, b, projecting horizontally from the rear face of the said plate, substantially as and for the purposes set forth. (2) A trunk catch or fastening, consisting of the combination of the plate, C, having thereon the lug or shoulder, L, the plate, G-, and the snap loop, J, substantially as and for the purposes specified. (3) A trunk catch or fastening, consisting of the combination of the plate, O, having thereon the lug or shpulder, L, and the post or pin, b, the plate, G, box or recess, H. spring, I, and loop, J, having the cam, K, on its crossbar, all substantially as and for the purposes specified.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sessions v. Gould
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.