State v. Glidden’s Empirical Analysis
1887
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 2 district · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1978 · most notably Truax v. Corrigan (1921), St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance v. Barry (1978)
11 federal appellate · 2 district · 33 state decisions — followed in 14 states
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is true we have no interest in your business, we have no capital invested therein, we are in no wise responsible for its losses or failures, we are not directly benefited by its success, and we do not participate in its profits; yet we have a right to control its management, and compel you to submit to our dictation.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““It seems strange that in this day, and in this free country,—a country in: which law interferes so little with the liberty of the individual,—it should be • necessary to announce from the bench that every man may carry on his business as he pleases, may do what he will with his own, so long as he does nothing unlawful, and acts with due regard to the rights of others, and that the - occasion for such an announcement should be, not an attempt by government to interfere with the rights of the citizen, nor by the rich and powerful to‘oppress the poor, but an attempt by a large body of workingmen to control, by-means little, if any, better than force, the action of employers.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““It seems strange that in this day and this free country — a country in which law interferes so little with the liberty of the individual — that it should be necessary to announce from the bench that every man may carry on his business as he pleases; may do what he will with his own so long as he does nothing unlawful and acts with due regard to the rights of others; and that the occasion for such an announcement should be, not an attempt by government to interfere with the rights of the citizen, nor by the rich and powerful to oppress the poor, but an attempt by a large body of workingmen to control, by means little if any better than force, the action of employers.””
1 later decision 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.