Forsyth v. Pierson’s Empirical Analysis
9 F. 801 · 1882
Citation profile
2 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently December 1911
2 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.
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The act says the absent defendant shall be ordered to appear on a day to be designated in the order — -not on a rule day. And furthermore, the order for the appearance of the absent defendant is not a subpoena or process within the meaning of rule 17 or rule 15 [20 Sup. Ct. xxvi, xxvii] which provides that the service of all process, mesne or final, shall be by the marshal of the district or by his deputy or by some other person specially appointed for that purpose.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.