Hall v. Law’s Empirical Analysis
102 U.S. 461 · 1880
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions (10 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1987 · most notably Mackall v. Casilear (1890), Cameron v. United States (1893)
13 federal appellate · 22 state decisions — followed in 14 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 John Voorhees v. James Jackson · Comstock v. Crawford · Horner v. Doe
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“designates as necessary to authorize the court to act is, that there should -be an application for the partition by one or more joint proprietors, after giving notice of the intended application in a public newspaper for at least four weeks. When. application is made, the court must consider whether it is by a proper party, whether it is sufficient in' form .and substance, and whether the requisas notice has been given, as prescribed. Its order made thereon is an adjudica-, tion in these matters.”
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.