Evanston v. Gunn’s Empirical Analysis
99 U.S. 660 · 1878
Citation profile
68 federal appellate · 6 district · 77 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 181 later decisions (13 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2019 · most notably Shapiro v. United States (1948), Robert Workman v. Mayor Aldermen and Commonalty of the City of New York a (1900)
68 federal appellate · 6 district · 77 state decisions — followed in 31 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 Cliquot's Champagne · William Galt v. James Galloway Jun · De Armond v. Neasmith · Chicago & Alton Railroad v. Morgan
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 181 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“they are kept in the discharge of a public duty”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Sentences may, it is true, be extracted from the charge, which, if read apart from the connection, need qualification. But the qualifications were given in the context, and the jury could not possibly have been misled.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“of a public character, kept for public purposes, and so immediately before the eyes of the community that inaccuracies, if they should exist, could hardly escape exposure.”
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.