Railroad Companies v. Chamberlain’s Empirical Analysis
73 U.S. 748 · 1867
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 5 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1935 · most notably Compton v. Jesup (1895), Johnson v. Christian (1888)
20 federal appellate · 5 district · 2 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 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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We think that the court erred In dismissing the cross bill. It was filed for the purpose of enforcing the judgment, which was in the circuit court, and could be filed in no other court, and was but ancillary to and dependent upon the original suit; an appropriate proceeding for the purpose of obtaining satisfaction.””
2 later decisions 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.