Boyd v. Clark’s Empirical Analysis
8 F. 849 · 1881
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 4 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1967 · most notably Central Vermont Railway Company v. Mary Theresa White L (1915), Bear Lake & River Water Works & Irrigation Co. v. Garland (1896)
11 federal appellate · 4 district · 3 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 Dennick v. Railroad Co. · Shelby · Jones v. Jones · Baker v. Stonebraker · Eastwood v. Kennedy
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““That where a statute gives a right of action unknown to the common law, and, either in a proviso to the section conferring the right or in a separate section, limits the time within which an action shall be brought, such limitation is operative in any other jurisdiction wherein the plaintiff may sue.” Boyd v. Clark (C. C.) 8 Fed. 849 , 852.”
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.