Memphis v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
94 U.S. 715 · 1876
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 3 district · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 83 later decisions (12 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2017 · most notably Federal Trade Commission v. Minneapolis-Honeywell Regulator Co. (1952), Missouri v. Lewis (1879)
31 federal appellate · 3 district · 20 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 City of Memphis v. Brown · Sage v. Central Rr Co. of Iowa · William Dromgoole v. The Farmers' and Merchants' Bank of Mississippi · Scull v. United States
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 83 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Older the ruling in Brockett v. Brockett, 2 How. 241 [ 11 L. Ed. 251 ], the motion made during the term to set aside the judgment of March 2d suspended the operation of that judgment, so that it did not take final effect for the purposes of a writ of error until May 20th, when the motion was disposed of.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sanborn v. Bay
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.