Schmedding v. May’s Empirical Analysis
1891
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2020
7 federal appellate · 4 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 Cowley v. Pulsifer · O'Hara v. King
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[O]ur conclusion is that the parties to suits in court may, under the direction of the court, lawfully withhold the records and papers in the case * * * until they are made public * * * by proceedings in open court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“right to an examination of the records and papers in a cause ..., before trial or hearing, or before they become public by proceedings in open court”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]hese suits, involving private transactions, may never come to trial or hearing. The troubles may be settled, and the charges withdrawn”
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.