Christy v. Pridgeon’s Empirical Analysis
71 U.S. 196 · 1866
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 4 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions (26 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1984 · most notably Kuhn v. Fairmont Coal Co. (1910), McArthur v. Scott (1885)
20 federal appellate · 4 district · 5 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 United States v. Dashiel
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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The interpretation within the jurisdiction of one state becomes a part of the law of that state, as much so as if incorporated into the body of it by the legislature. If. therefore, different interpretations are given in different states to a similar local law, that law, in effect, becomes by the interpretations, so far as it is a ride of our action, a different law in one state from what it is in the other.””
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Nor is it questionable that a fixed and received construction of tbeir respective statute laws in tbeir own courts makes, in fact, a part of the statute law of the country, however we may doubt the propriety of that construction.””
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.