Hampton v. Phipps’s Empirical Analysis
108 U.S. 260 · 1883
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 district · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions (11 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2012 · most notably Pearlman v. Reliance Insurance (1962), Prudence Realization Corp. v. Geist (1942)
6 federal appellate · 1 district · 28 state decisions — followed in 17 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 Basket v. Hassell
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ The implication is, that a pledge made expressly to one is in trust for another, because the relation between the parties is such that that construction of the transaction best effectuates the express purpose for which it was made.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““It follows that the present case cannot be brought within either the terms or the reason of the rule; for, as the property, in respect to which the creditors assert, a lien, was not the property of the principal debtor, and has never been expressly pledged to payment of the debt, so no equitable construction can convert it by implication into a security for the creditor.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“equally between Sureties, so that securities placed by the principal in the hands of one, -to operate as an indemnity by payment of the debt, shall enure to the benefit of all;”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Keller v. Ashford
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.