Ferguson v. . Hubbell’s Empirical Analysis
1884
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 86 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 88 later decisions — most recently May 1979 · most notably Wakeman v. Wheeler & Wilson Manufacturing Co. (1886), Vallejo & Northern R.R. v. Reed Orchard Co. (1915)
1 federal appellate · 86 state decisions — followed in 19 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 McCafferty v. . S.D. P.M.R.R. Co. · Higgins v. Dewey · Concord Railroad v. Greely · Luce v. Dorchester Mutual Fire Insurance · Hays v. . Miller
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 88 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If the facts can be placed before a jury, and they are of such a nature that jurors generally are just as competent to form opinions in reference to them and draw inferences from them, then the opinions of experts cannot be received in evidence.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sanders v. Graves
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.