Herbert v. Butler’s Empirical Analysis
97 U.S. 319 · 1877
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 4 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 87 later decisions (21 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1948 · most notably Pennsylvania Co v. Chamberlain (1933), Vicksburg v. Putnam (1886)
27 federal appellate · 4 district · 9 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 Improvement Company v. Munson · John Graham v. Alexander Bayne · Generes v. Campbell
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 87 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is tlie settled law of this court that when the evidence given at the trial, with all inferences that the jury could justifiably draw from it, is insufficient to support a verdict for the plaintiff, so that such a verdict, if returned, must be set aside,- the court is not bound to submit the case to the jury, but may direct a verdict for the defendant””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bramley v. Dilworth
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.