Tappan v. Beardsley’s Empirical Analysis
77 U.S. 427 · 1870
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 10 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2014 · most notably Burton v. United States (1906), Applegate v. Lexington & Carter County Mining Co. (1886)
5 federal appellate · 10 district · 6 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 The Marine Insurance Company of Alexandria v. Hodgson · Ducat v. Chicago
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““As to Taylor’s deposition, the fact that he was a competent witness in tlie present suit, and could have been used by the plaintiff as such, is sufficient to exclude his deposition taken in another suit, even if Tappan had been a party to that suit.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.