Rodd v. Heartt’s Empirical Analysis
84 U.S. 354 · 1872
Citation profile
71 federal appellate · 9 district · 66 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 213 later decisions (20 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2018 · most notably Erie Co v. Tompkins (1938), National Equipment Rental, Ltd. v. Szukhent (1964)
71 federal appellate · 9 district · 66 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.
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 213 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“though upon appeals from the District Court the district judge has no vote in the Circuit Court, he has, in all other respects, the powers of a member of the. court, and may, consequently, allow appeals from its decisions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Baker v. Power
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.