Scott v. Ford’s Empirical Analysis
1908
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2005 · most notably Botany Worsted Mills v. United States (1929), Yarborough v. United States (1956)
12 federal appellate · 41 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 Weber v. Kirkendall · Lloyd v. Brinck · Hoover v. King · Canfield v. Bostwick · State ex rel. Brainerd v. Adams
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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`whenever a statute limits a thing to be done in a particular form, it necessarily includes in itself a negative, viz., that the thing shall not be done otherwise.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.