Boyce v. Tabb

1873-10-27 · Supreme Court of the United States · United States

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3 judgments have relied on it, across 1924–1938

first 1924 · last 1938 · busiest 1924 (1 judgments)

1938-04-25Erie Railroad Co. v. TompkinsSupreme Court of the United States×2 1928-04-09Black and White Taxicab and Transfer Company v. Brown and Yellow Taxicab and Transfer CompanySupreme Court of the United States 1924-02-18Salem Trust Company v. Manufacturers’ Finance Company Et Al.Supreme Court of the United States

What it rests on

1842-01-25John Swift v. George W. TysonSupreme Court of the United States

Departed from

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Departure is not detected yet, and the gap is deliberate. Searching for the words the Court might use was measured on 1,019 judgments: "depart from" appears 100 times and most often means departing from the facts found by a domestic court; "overruled" appears 44 times, usually about a domestic judgment; "abandon" appears 123 times, most often as abandoned firearms. Tightened to require the Court itself as the subject, precision was still around 40%, the rest being a dissenting judge complaining, or a national supreme court departing from its own case-law. Telling a lawyer an authority is dead when it is alive is worse than saying nothing, so nothing is what this says until each candidate can be judged properly.

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Most citations carry no word at all. The Court does not always say what it is doing when it cites one of its own judgments, and where it stayed silent nothing is inferred here.