Ex parte Sawyer’s Empirical Analysis
88 U.S. 235 · 1874
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions (11 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1961 · most notably Roche v. Evaporated Milk Ass'n (1943), Ex parte Roe (1914)
21 federal appellate · 2 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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the sureties on the stipulation (for value) are entitled to an appeal from any decree that may be rendered against them.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. The Lydia
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.