Conder v. Griffith’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently March 2004 · most notably Larkins v. Kohlmeyer (1951), Peigh v. Baltimore & O. R. (1953)
3 federal appellate · 23 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 Penso v. McCormick · Indiana Railway Co. v. Maurer · Cincinnati, Hamilton & Indianapolis Railroad v. Butler · Indianapolis Traction & Terminal Co. v. Mathews · Mercer v. Corbin
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“ordinarily include locomotives, cars, and street cars, which run and are operated only over and upon a permanent track or fixed way, and will not be held to include them unless the context of the ordinance or statute clearly indicate an intention to do so.”
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.