Fitchett v. Blows’s Empirical Analysis
74 F. 47 · 1896
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently June 1940
6 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 Kimberly v. Arms · Barney v. Latham · William Oliver and Micajah Williams v. Robert Piatt · Furrer v. Ferris · Shields v. Thomas
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When the court below has considered conflicting evidence, and made its finding and decree thereon, they must be taken to be presumptively correct; and unless an obvious error has intervened in the ax>plication of the law. or some serious or important mistake has been made in the consideration of the evidence, the decree should be permitted to stand.” •”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cheney v. Bilby
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.