Mercer v. . Vose’s Empirical Analysis
1876
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently June 2004 · most notably Goodwin v. State (1883), Louisville, New Albany & Chicago Railway Co. v. Wood (1887)
1 federal appellate · 30 state decisions — followed in 14 states
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.
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ Witnesses may give opinions as to the value of services of which they had peculiar knowledge, which a jury is not supposed to possess. They may base their opinions upon what they know of the services rendered, or upon a hypothetical case, including some or all the facts proven, and the jury will determine, from the skill of the witnesses and all the other circumstances, the weight to be given to the opinions.””
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.