Garfield v. Paris’s Empirical Analysis
96 U.S. 557 · 1877
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 4 district · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 1949 · most notably Guardian Trust & Deposit Co. v. Fisher (1906), Elliott v. Howison (1906)
4 federal appellate · 4 district · 26 state decisions — followed in 13 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 Shepherd v. Pressey · Messer v. Woodman · Gray v. . Davis · Delventhal v. Jones
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““'Controlling authorities already referred to show that the question whether the goods or any part of the same were received and accepted by the purchaser, is one fur the jury, to which list of citations many more may be given of equal weight and directness.55”
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.