Boley v. Griswold’s Empirical Analysis
87 U.S. 486 · 1874
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 4 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 1948 · most notably Oakes v. Lake (1933), Ætna Ins. v. Rhodes (1948)
8 federal appellate · 4 district · 10 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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Tfie court must be satisfied that the delivery cannot be made before it can adjudge absolutely the payment of money. But, if so satisfied, it may so adjudge. A sxiecial finding to that effect is not necessary. An absolute judgment for the money is equivalent, to such a finding.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Burton v. Platter
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.