Context: Early on, American courts, even after the Revolution, often did cite contemporary English cases. This was because appellate decisions from many American courts were not regularly reported until the mid-19th century; lawyers and judges, as creatures of habit, used English legal materials to fill the gap. But citations to English decisions gradually disappeared during the 19th century as American courts developed their own principles to resolve the legal problems of the American people. The number of published volumes of American reports soared from eighteen in 1810 to over 8,000 by 1910. By 1879 one of the delegates to the California constitutional convention was already complaining: "Now, when we require them to state the reasons for a decision, we do not mean they shall write a hundred pages of detail. We [do] not mean that they shall include the small cases, and impose on the country all this fine judicial literature, for the Lord knows we have got enough of that already."

Question: early on American courts cited what cases?
Answer: contemporary English

Question: What century were apellate decisions regularly reported?
Answer: 19th century

Question: When did cotations to English decisions gradually disappear?
Answer: 19th century

Question: How many published reports of American volumes existed in 1810?
Answer: eighteen

Question: How many published reports of American volumes existed in 1910?
Answer: over 8,000

Question: When did Americans really begin to establish their own laws independent of the English?
Answer: mid-19th century

Question: How many published volumes of American reports were released in 1810?
Answer: eighteen

Question: By 1910, how many volumes of American reports were there?
Answer: 8,000

Question: What did the lawmakers think of the increase in reports?
Answer: By 1879 one of the delegates to the California constitutional convention was already complaining

Question: What were the lawmakers beginning to drown in?
Answer: judicial literature

Question: Whose cases did English courts cite early on?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: When did decisions from English courts begin to be reported?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: How many published volumes of American reports were there in 1879?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: Where was the delegate who praised the American judicial literature from?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: How many English law volumes were there in 1810?
Answer: Unanswerable