Sleeper v. Goodwin’s Empirical Analysis
1887
Citation profile
1 district · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently December 1973
1 district · 21 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 National Bank v. Case · Attorney General v. Chicago & Northwestern Railway Co. · Pullman v. Upton · Kincaid v. . Dwinelle · Adler v. Milwaukee Patent Brick Manufacturing Co.
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It will be seen by reading the statute that it does not, in express terms, declare that the wages for six -months which are secured to the laborer, etc., by this act, must be for wages earned in the last six months of services.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.