Dexter v. Edmands’s Empirical Analysis
89 F. 467 · 1898
Citation profile
7 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1945
7 federal appellate ·
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 Huntington v. Attrill · Pritchard Ex'X v. Norton · Richmond v. Irons · Texas & Pacific Railway Co. v. Cox · New York v. United States
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Indeed, I find it difficult to imagine what would be the condition of this government if the federal courts should refuse, on any of the grounds just 'mentioned, to recognize and enforce the rights arising under a state statute; which had been formally adopted, and was not contrary either to the constitution of the United States or to that of the state adopting it.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hale v. Hardon““The difference between a right ■ vested in all the creditors to proceed in one action against all the stockholders, and a right vested in each individual creditor to proceed against any individual stockholder, is much more than a difference between two remedies. It is a difference between two substantive rights.””
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.