Marshall v. Wells’s Empirical Analysis
1859
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently December 1968
1 federal appellate · 19 state decisions — followed in 11 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It was therefore, very proper for parties to prove, and the jury to consider , the usual mode of doing the particular business in question (that of receiving and forwarding packages by express) in reference to the time of the arrival and departure of trains, with which the consignor, consignee and carrier in this case are shown to be familiar. Because notes due the bank on a particular day must be paid before the usual hour of closing the bank on that day it by no means follows that a mechanic making repairs on its building must quit work at that time, or that he must present his bill within the prescribed period.”
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.