Telegraph Company v. Eyser’s Empirical Analysis
86 U.S. 419 · 1873
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1947
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 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 Wallen v. Williams
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is expressly declared that the supersedeas bond may he executed within sixty days after the rendition of the judgment. It is not said when the writ shall he served. The giving of the bond alone is made the condition of the stay. The section is silent as to the writ. The execution, approval, and filing of the bond is substantial. The filing of the writ is matter of form.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““In any case where a writ of error may be a supersedeas, the defendant may obtain such supersedeas by serving the writ of error, by lodging a copy thereof for the adverse party in the clerk’s office where the record remains, within sixty days, Sundays exclusive, after the rendering of the judgment complained of, and giving the security required by law on the issuing of the citation. But if he desires to stay process on the judgment, he may, having served his writ of error as aforesaid, give the security required by law within sixty days after the rendition of such judgment, or afterward with the permission'of a justice or judge of the appellate court. And in such cases where a writ of error may be a supersedeas, execution shall not issue until the expiration of the said term of sixty [ten days] days.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. McCarley v. McGhee“that any party or person desiring to have any judgment, decree, or order of a*ny district or circuit court reviewed on writ of error or appeal, and to stay proceedings thereon during the pendency of such writ of error or appeal, may give the security required by law therefor within sixty days after the rendition of such judgment, decree, or order, or afterward, with the permission of a justice or judge' of the appellate court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kitchen v. Randolph
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.