Milliken v. Barrow’s Empirical Analysis
65 F. 888 · 1895
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently January 1970
2 federal appellate · 4 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 Hobbs v. McLean · Freedman's Saving & Trust Co. v. Shepherd · Goodman v. Niblack · Erwin v. United States · United States v. Gillis
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A hope or expectation of gain or profit in some enterprise may form the object of a contract of sale, (citing cases). That equity, in the absence of a special prohibition will enforce such an agreement as the one under consideration is perfectly clear.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re Goodson
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.