Reed v. Gardner’s Empirical Analysis
84 U.S. 409 · 1873
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions (8 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1928 · most notably Krauss Bros. Lumber Co. v. Mellon (1928), Sweeney v. Baker (1878)
14 federal appellate · 3 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.
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If: lias been frequently held by this court tliat, in passing upon the questions presented in a. bill of excepüons, it will not look beyond the bill itself. The pleadings and the statements of the bill, the verdict, and the judgment are the only matters that are properly before the court. Depositions, exhibits, or cerüíicates not contained in the hill cannot be considered by the court.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““It bas been frequently held by this court that, in passing upon tbe questions presented in a bill of exceptions, it will not look beyond tbe bill itself. Norris v. Jackson, 9 Wall. 125 ; Lincoln v. Claflin, 7 Wall. 136 ; Leftwieh v. Lecanu, 4 Wall. 187 ; Russell v. Ely, 2 Black, 580 . Tbe pleadings, and tbe statements of tbe bill, tbe verdict, and tbe judgment, are tbe only matters that are properly before tbe court. Depositions, exhibits, or certificates, not contained in tbe bill, cannot be considered by tbe court. Tbe case of Flanders v. Tweed was exceptional. Tbe court intend to adhere to this practice. Under this rule there is, then, nothing whatever in tbe present case for tbe court to pass upon. It is impossible, upon a record such as this is, that we should know whether tbe charge is correct or erroneous, or whether the refusals to charge as requested were justified, or whether they were improper. As already said, there is absolutely nothing presented to this court for consideration.””
1 later decision 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.