Goddard v. Ordway’s Empirical Analysis
94 U.S. 672 · 1876
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1931 · most notably Midland Terminal Ry. Co. v. Warinner (1923), Gotthelf v. Fickett (1931)
6 federal appellate · 1 district · 8 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 Glenny v. Langdon
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A supersedeas is not obtained by virtue of any process issued by this court, but it follows as a matter of law from a compliance by tbe appellant with tbe provisions/of tbe act of Congress in that behalf.””
2 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.