Swift & Co. v. Short’s Empirical Analysis
92 F. 567 · 1899
Citation profile
8 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently October 1958
8 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 Central Railroad v. Keegan · Hemingway v. Garth · City of Minneapolis v. Lundin · Balch v. Haas · Camden & S. Ry. Co. v. Burr
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A litigant may not introduce testimony for the purpose of showing that the general character for truth and veracity of one of his own witnesses is bad, but this rule does not go to the extent of preventing him from showing the verity of any particular fact or transaction which he wishes to establish. He may call witnesses to prove a particular fact, although their evidence with relation thereto contradicts the testimony of other witnesses who have previously testified in his favor with reference to the same transaction. Moreover, under some circumstances, where a party has been deceived by one of his witnesses, who has given testimony which was unexpected, the better view is that the party so deceived may impeach the witness to the extent of showing that the statements made by him on the witness stand are contrary to those made by him before the trial, or before he was sworn,” —citing Phil. Ev. 905; Greenl. Ev. (15th Ed.) §§ 443, 444; Melhuish v. Collier, 15 Q. B. 878; and Hemingway v. Garth, 51 Ala. 530 .”
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.