Ives v. Hamilton’s Empirical Analysis
92 U.S. 426 · 1875
Citation profile
47 federal appellate · 31 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 162 later decisions (10 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2023 · most notably Continental Paper Bag Company v. Eastern Paper Bag Company (1908), Sanitary Refrigerator Co. v. Winters (1929)
47 federal appellate · 31 district · 2 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 Seymour v. Osborne · Mowry v. Whitney · Burr v. Duryee · Erastus Corning and John Winslow v. Peter a Burden · McCormick v. Talcott
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 162 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The substitution of guides at the top, made crooked, by a broken line instead of a curve line, is too transparent an imitation to need a moment’s consideration. A curve itself is often treated, even in mathematical science, as consisting of a succession of very short straight lines, or as one broken line constantly changing its direction. * * * At all events, in mechanics, when, as in this case, a broken line is used instead, of a curve, being deflected at one or more points by a very slight angle, and performing precisely the same office as a curve similarly situated, the one is clearly the equivalent of the other.””
3 later decisions 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.