Improvement Company v. Munson’s Empirical Analysis
81 U.S. 442 · 1871
Citation profile
135 federal appellate · 239 district · 57 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 839 later decisions (28 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2022 · most notably Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. (1986), The Boeing Company v. Daniel C. Shipman (1969)
135 federal appellate · 239 district · 57 state decisions — followed in 20 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 United States v. Ballard · Norris v. Hamilton · Lessee of Steward v. Richardson · Dubois v. Lord
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 839 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“required to submit a question to a jury merely because some evidence has been introduced by the party having the burden of proof, unless the evidence be of such a character that it would warrant the jury in finding a verdict in favor of that party.”
33 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.