Wright v. Southern Exp. Co.’s Empirical Analysis
80 F. 85 · 1897
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently December 1954
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 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 · District of Columbia v. Armes · Mt. Adams & E. P. Inclined Ry. Co. v. Lowery
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.
““Where one who has been adjudged to be insane is offered as a witness, the inquiry for the court on the preliminary examination is limited to his understanding of the obligations of an oath and ability to comprehend the examination as a witness, and, if he can stand this test, the effect of his alleged insanity upon his credibility is for the jury.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““It must and should be performed in every case with such conscientious intelligence as belongs to the judge, and that is the best that can be done in any case where he is called upon to discharge that duty.””
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.