Hammock v. Loan and Trust Company’s Empirical Analysis
105 U.S. 77 · 1881
Citation profile
36 federal appellate · 13 district · 53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 180 later decisions (20 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2012 · most notably United States National Bank v. Independent Insurance Agents of America, Inc. (1993), Billings v. United States (1914)
36 federal appellate · 13 district · 53 state decisions — followed in 23 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 Peck v. Jenness · Brine v. Insurance Co. · Hagan v. Lucas · Robert Gue v. The Tide Water Canal Company
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 180 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'repunctuate, if need be, to render the true meaning of the statute.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““This statutory right of redemption and right to a sale in separate parcels does not extend to the real estate of a corporation which is mortgaged, with its franchise, to acquire, hold, and use property for public purposes, and whose chief value depends upon its unity, and its use for and appropriation to those purposes.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““In all of the decisions which hold that the locomotives, engines, and other rolling stock of a railroad are subject to- ilie provisions of the act relating to chattel mortgages, it is conceded, if the question is referred to, that, if there is an independent statute of the state authorizing railroad companies to mortgage their corporate property and franchises to secure the payment of tlieir bonds, the chattel mortgage act would not be applicable, because it must be, and is, universally acknowledged that it is within the power of the legislature of a state to regúlale the mode and prescribe the manner in which the real and personal property within the state may be conveyed or mortgaged.””
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.