Bicycle Stepladder Co. v. Gordon’s Empirical Analysis
57 F. 529 · 1893
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1990
4 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 Ex Parte Shaw · United States v. Southern Pac. R. Co. · Reinstadler v. Reeves
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““An Inhabitant of a place is one who ordinarily is personally present there; not merely ini itinere, but as a resident and dweller therein.” Holmes v. & Co. (D. C.) 5 Fed. 523 .”
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.