Halsted v. Buster’s Empirical Analysis
119 U.S. 341 · 1886
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions (18 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 1989 · most notably Newman-Green, Inc. v. Alfonzo-Larrain (1989), Heiser v. Woodruff (1946)
12 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.
Relationships
Relies on Hancock v. Holbrook · Donnelly v. District of Columbia
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Waite delivered the opinion of the court. This record does not show that the Circuit Court had jurisdiction of the suit which depended alone on the citizenship of the parties. The petition states that Edmund Menard, the plaintiff, “resides in Randolph County, in'the state of Illinois,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Menard v. Goggan
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.