Covert v. Travers Bros. Co.’s Empirical Analysis
70 F. 788 · 1895
Citation profile
2 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently December 1939
2 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 Birdsell v. Shaliol · New York Belting & Packing Co. v. New Jersey Car Spring & Rubber Co. · Blessing Et Al. v. Works. · Eclipse Manuf'g Co. v. Adkins · Goebel v. American Railway Supply 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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The herein-described method of connecting one part of a rope adjacent to another part, or the ends of two ropes, by clamping the same with one or more open rings of metal, under extreme pressure, as set forth.””
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.