Hecht v. Boughton’s Empirical Analysis
105 U.S. 235 · 1881
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions (28 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1967 · most notably William W. Bierce, Ltd. v. Hutchins (1907), Murphy v. Ramsey (1885)
3 federal appellate · 6 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.
Relationships
Relies on Stringfellow v. Cain
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We are not to consider the testimony in any case. Upon a writ of error we are confined to the bill of exceptions, •or questions of law otherwise presented by the record; and upon an appeal, to the statement of facts and rulings certified by the court below. The facts set forth in the statement, which must come up with the appeal, are conclusive on us. Under these circumstances, the form of proceeding to get a review is not of so much importance as certainty about what is to be done.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“that on appeal, instead of the evidence at large, a statement of the facts in the case in the nature of a special verdict, and also the rulings of the court on the admission or rejection of evidence, when excepted to, shall be made and certified by the court below, and transmitted to the Supreme •Court, together with a transcript of the proceedings and judgment or decree.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Grayson v. Lynch
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.