Speer v. Board of County Com'rs’s Empirical Analysis
88 F. 749 · 1898
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1938 · most notably Kuhn v. Fairmont Coal Co. (1910), Harrison v. Remington Paper Co. (1905)
29 federal appellate · 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.
Relationships
Relies on Burgess v. Seligman · Norton v. Shelby County · State v. Carroll · Illinois Trust & Savings Bank v. City of Arkansas City · Wall v. County of Monroe
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When contracts and transactions have been entered Into, and rights have accrued thereon, under a particular state of the decisions, or when there has been no decision of the state tribunals, the federal courts properly claim the right to adopt their own interpretation of the law applicable to the case, although a different interpretation may be adopted by the state courts after such rights have accrued.””
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.