Cameron v. Vandergriff’s Empirical Analysis
1890
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2004
5 federal appellate · 9 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.
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The rock which occasioned the injury was put in motion by the appellants in the Indian Territory; but, by the same force its motion was continued and the injury done in this state. The cause of action arose here.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gentry v. Jett
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.