Plimpton v. Winslow’s Empirical Analysis
9 F. 365 · 1881
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently January 1959
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 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 Bridges v. Sheldon · Brooks v. Farwell · Steiger v. Bonn
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The deioiuumr attended as a party before the examiner. The examination was made a regular proceeding in the suit in Massachusetts. The defendant hart a right; to attend upon it in person, whether he was to be himself examined as a witness before Mr. Thompson, a special examiner, or not, and he bad a -right io be protected, while attending upon it, from the service of the papers which were served in this suit, lie attended in good faith. The examination was pending, and he was served during the interval of an adjournment. The privilege violated was a privilege of the Massachusetts court, and one to be liberally construed for the due administration of justice.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kinne v. Lant
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.