Terrell v. Allison’s Empirical Analysis
88 U.S. 289 · 1874
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2020 · most notably Chastleton Corporation v. Sinclair (1924), Lamb v. Cramer (1932)
24 federal appellate · 19 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is a rule old as the law that no man shall be condemned in his rights'of property, as well as in his rights of person, without his day in court; that is, without being duly cited to answer respecting them, and being beard or baying opportunity of being beard thereon.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gillett v. Romig
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.