Conrad v. Waples’s Empirical Analysis
96 U.S. 279 · 1877
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions (16 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1927 · most notably Central Union Trust Co of New York v. Garvan Merrill (1921), United States v. American Bell Telephone Co. (1888)
4 federal appellate · 6 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 Corbett v. Nutt · Ellis v. Prevost · Kershaw v. Kelsey · Flynn v. Moore
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Respecting the power of government no doubt is entertained. . . . When the sovereign ■authority shall choose to bring it into operation, the judicial department must' give effect to its will. ■ But until that will shall be expressed, no power of condemnation can exist in the court.”
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.