Wright v. Bales’s Empirical Analysis
67 U.S. 535 · 1862
Citation profile
9 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 1942
9 federal appellate ·
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 Benjamin Sims v. Thomas Hundley
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The statutory enactments of the States of the Union, in respect to evidence in cases at common law, are obligatory upon judges of the courts of the United States, who are bound to apply them as rules of decision.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The rules of evidence prescribed by the statute of a state are always followed by the courts of the United States, when sitting in the state, in commercial eases as well as in others.””
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.