Hardenburg v. Beecher’s Empirical Analysis
1883
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently June 1987
1 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
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.
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The debtor is, however, entitled’ to the possession until the acknowledgment ; the purchaser has by his mere purchase acquired no title to the present enjoyment. This right to possession carries with it its attendant advantages, the right to the growing crops as they mature; the right to an ordinary use of a mine or quarry, or to the flow from an oil well.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Traer v. Fowler
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.