The Marine Insurance Company of Alexandria v. Hodgson’s Empirical Analysis
11 U.S. 332 · 1813
Citation profile
39 federal appellate · 11 district · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 119 later decisions (14 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2017 · most notably Hazel-Atlas Glass Co. v. Hartford-Empire Co. (1944), Marshall v. Holmes (1891)
39 federal appellate · 11 district · 26 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 Wallen v. Williams · Knox v. Parker · McFerran v. Taylor
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 119 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Any fa ct which clearly proves it to be against conscience to execute a judgment, and of which the injured party could not have availed himself in a court of law, and of which he might have availed himself at law, but was prevented jby fraud or accident, unmixed with any fault or negligence in himself or his agents, will justify an application to a court of chancery.” Hendrickson v. Hinckley, 37 How. 443 , 444, 35 L. Ed. 123 ; Hungerford v. Sigerson, 20 How. 156 , 161, 15 L. Ed. 869 ; Gaines v. Fuentes, 92 U. S. 10 , 22, 23 L. Ed. 524 ; Barrow v. Hunton, 99 U. S. 80 , 85, 25 L. Ed. 407 ; Johnson v. Waters, 111 U. S. 640 , 667, 4 Sup. Ct. 619 , 28 L. Ed. 547 ; Arrowsmith v. Gleason, 129 U. S. 86 , 97, 98, 9 Sup. St. 237, 32 L. Ed. 630 ; Marshall v. Holmes, 141 U. S. 589 , 596, 12 Sup. Ct. 62 , 35 L. Ed. 870 ; National Surety Company v. State Bank, 120 Fed. 593 , 598, 56 C. C. A. 657 , 662, 61 L. R. A. 394 .”
13 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.