Boyce v. Tabb’s Empirical Analysis
85 U.S. 546 · 1873
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 6 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions (12 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1938 · most notably Erie Co v. Tompkins (1938), Salem Trust Co. v. Manufacturers' Finance Co. (1924)
8 federal appellate · 6 district ·
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 The Star of Hope
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is urged, on tbe part of the plaintiff in error, as the highest court of Louisiana has. on the grounds of public policy, refused to enforce contracts like this since the abolition of slavery, that Judiciary Act Sept. 24, 1789, c. 20, (34, 1 Stat. 92 (U. S. Comp. St. 1901, p. 581), obliges this court to follow that rule of decision. This is an erroneous view of the obligation imposed by that section on this court, as our decisions abundantly show. The provisions of that section do not apply, nor was it intended that they should apply, to questions of a general nature not based on a local statute or usage, nor on any rule of law affecting titles to land, nor upon any principle which has become a settled rule of property. The decisions of the state courts on all questions not ihus affected are not conclusive authority, although they are entitled to and will receive from us attention and respect.””
2 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.