Colby v. Reed’s Empirical Analysis
99 U.S. 560 · 1878
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2016 · most notably Murphy v. John Hofman Co. (1909), 136 S. Ct. 663 - Campbell-Ewald Co. v. Gomez (2016)
17 federal appellate · 25 state decisions — followed in 11 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 Yale v. Saunders · Hart v. Skinner · Rutland & Washington Railroad v. Bank of Middlebury · Ashburn v. Poulter
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“must adopt the measure prescribed by the common law, except in jurisdictions where a different mode of proceeding is prescribed by statute”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Responsive to the second request, the judge told the jury that where a party demands more than he is entitled to receive, that circumstance alone will not justify the other party in refusing to deliver that part of the property to which the party making the demand is entitled, provided it is distinct, well known, and clearly distinguishable from that to which the demanding party had no right; that if the party demanded $45,000 of the stock when he was only entitled to $32,000 of the same, the defendant could not properly refuse to deliver what the plaintiff was entitled to receive, on the ground that the" demand was excessive. Injustice and inconvenience would flow from any different rule, and, inasmuch as we are all of the opinion that the instruction was correct, it is not deemed necessary to pursue the subject.””
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.