Scovill v. Glasner’s Empirical Analysis
1883
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 109 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 123 later decisions — most recently March 1948 · most notably New York Co v. Estill (1893), Williams v. Chicago, Santa Fe & California Railway Co. (1892)
7 federal appellate · 109 state decisions — followed in 10 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 Adams v. Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad · Kelly v. Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad · Sharpe v. Johnston · Vansickle v. Brown · O'Bryan v. Kinney
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 123 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““He ought not to make the court a place of chance and appeal only when he has failed on another accepted issue. ””
1 later decision 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.