Munn v. Garver’s Empirical Analysis
67 F. 553 · 1895
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1928
2 federal appellate · 5 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 Pittman v. The Samuel Marshall · Stephenson v. The Francis · The Alabama · McCaldin v. The Stroma · Herreshoff Manuf'g Co. v. The Now Then
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The material inquiry is not whether the libelant himself may have contemplated a claim of lien, but whether a lien was created by or resulted from the mutual understanding of the parties and the services rendered in pursuance of it””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. The Alligator
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.