Tool Company v. Norris’s Empirical Analysis
69 U.S. 45 · 1864
Citation profile
52 federal appellate · 20 district · 96 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 250 later decisions (31 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2018 · most notably Olmstead v. United States (1928), United States v. Mississippi Valley Generating Co. (1961)
52 federal appellate · 20 district · 96 state decisions — followed in 29 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.
Relationships
Relies on Day v. Gallup
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 250 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It matters not that any particular contract is free from any taint of actual fraud, oppression, or corruption. The law looks to the general tendency of such contracts.” *”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“introduce personal solicitation and personal influence”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“agreement for compensation to procure a contract from the Government,”
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.