Asher v. Cabell’s Empirical Analysis
50 F. 818 · 1892
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently October 1989
8 federal appellate · 1 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 The Harrisburg · Dennick v. Railroad Co. · Insurance Company v. Brame · Hendrick v. Walton
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * *. That a United States marshal may take prisoners into his custody, permit them to be disarmed and shackled, and then negligently and knowingly deliver them over to incompetent deputies and the known hostility of mobs, without liability for his neglect of duty, is a proposition which we think cannot be sanctioned. * * * 50 F. at 827 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Roberts v. Williams
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.