York & Cumberland Railroad v. Myers’s Empirical Analysis
59 U.S. 246 · 1855
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 2 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 1964 · most notably Red Cross Line v. Atlantic Fruit Co. (1924), Bond v. Dustin (1884)
26 federal appellate · 2 district · 7 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 Burchell v. Marsh · Dash v. Van Kleeck · Zeller's Lessee v. Eckert · Henderson v. Moore
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This conclusion of his (the referee) is a final decision on the question, for this court cannot revise his mistakes, either of law or of fact, if such had been established. Burchell v. Marsh, 17 How. 341 [ 15 L. Ed. 96 ]; Kleine v. Catara, 2 Gall. 61 [Fed. Cas. No. 7,869].””
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.