Insurance Company v. Boon’s Empirical Analysis
95 U.S. 117 · 1877
Citation profile
145 federal appellate · 29 district · 125 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 378 later decisions (22 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2026 · most notably Gully v. First Nat. Bank in Meridian (1936), Fleischmann Const Co v. United States (1926)
145 federal appellate · 29 district · 125 state decisions — followed in 35 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 Milwaukee and Saint Paul Railway Company v. Kellogg · Martin Fairfax v. Hunter's · STANTON v. Embrey, Administrator · Ex Parte Charles Sibbald v. The 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 378 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'is the dominant cause, not the one which is incidental to that cause....'”
24 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. The G. R. Booth · The Ontario““Every court of record has power to amend its records, so as tOa make them conform to and exhibit the truth.””
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““When an issue of fact in any civil cause in a Circuit Court is tried and determined by the court without the intervention of a jury, according to section six hundred and forty-nine, the rulings of the court in the progress of tile trial of the cause, if excepted to at the time, and duly presented by a bill of exceptions, may be reviewed by the Supreme Court upon a, writ of error or upon appeal; and when the finding is special the review may extend to the determination of the sufficiency of the facts found to support the judgment.””
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.