Towson v. Denson’s Empirical Analysis
1905
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions — most recently October 1999 · most notably Boynton v. Ashabranner (1905), Schmeltzer v. Scheid (1941)
10 federal appellate · 56 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 Campbell v. City of Haverhill · Wheeler v. Jackson · League v. Texas · Saranac Land Timber Company v. James a Roberts · Wilson v. Standefer
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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘When the enacting clause is general in its language and objects, and a proviso is afterwards introduced, that proviso is construed strictly, and takes no case out of the enacting clause, which does not fall fairly within its terms.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Robinson
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.