Canal Company v. Gordon’s Empirical Analysis
73 U.S. 561 · 1867
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 93 later decisions (14 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 1990 · most notably Henningsen v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. (1908), Fosdick v. Schall (1878)
19 federal appellate · 42 state decisions — followed in 18 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 Reichart v. Felps
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 93 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Liens of this kind were unknown to the common-law and equity jurisdiction both of England and of this country. They were clearly defined and regulated, in the civil law. Dom. Civil Law', §§ 1742, 1744. Where they exist in this country, they are the creatures of local legislation. They are governed in everything by the statutes under which they arise.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““ This part of the case has been argued very fully by counsel on both sides. We have looked carefully into the evidence. The result is, that we are entirely satisfied with the report, and in this respect with the decree. We think the fault of the rupture lies wholly with the company. Gordon & Kenyon adhered to the contract, and pursued the work longer than they were bound to do. When they retired they were fully justified, and had a clear equity to be paid for the work they had performed.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cox v. McLaughlin
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.