Hartman v. Greenhow’s Empirical Analysis
102 U.S. 672 · 1880
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 4 district · 35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 102 later decisions (26 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2016 · most notably Home Building & Loan Ass'n v. Blaisdell (1934), Poindexter v. Greenhow (1884)
3 federal appellate · 4 district · 35 state decisions — followed in 16 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 Ex Parte in the Matter of the Commonwealth of Kentucky v. William Dennison Governor and Executive Authority of the State of Ohio · Murray v. Charleston · Durant v. Essex Co. · Durant v. Essex Co.
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 102 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a contract was thus consummated between the State and the holder of the new bonds, and the holders of the coupons....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“be receivable at and af;ter maturity for all taxes, debts, dues and demands due the State,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“An Act to provide for the funding and payment of the public debt.”
2 later decisions 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.