Reed v. Stapp’s Empirical Analysis
52 F. 641 · 1892
Citation profile
16 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently December 1917
16 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 the "Abbotsford" · Scott v. Hickman · Mining Company v. Taylor · Tyng v. Grinnell · Copelin v. Insurance Co.
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The practice adopted by counsel in this case, of seeking to have the opinion of the court fulfill the office of a finding, is not to be commended. The special finding of the statute is a specific statement of the ultimate facts proven by the evidence, determining .the issues, and essential to sustain the judgment. It corresponds to- the special verdict of a jury, and should be equally specific and comprehensive. It should declare all the ultimate facts established by the evidence, so that if they do not. in law, warrant the- judgment, an appellate tribunal may direct such judgment Thereon as the law adjudges upon the facts determined, and without the need of a new trial, as was done in Ift. Scott v. Hickman, 112 U. S. 150 , 5 Sup. Ct. 56 .””
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.