Harmony v. . Bingham’s Empirical Analysis
1854
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 87 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 97 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 1996 · most notably United States v. Bethlehem Steel Corp. (1942), Shirk v. Lancaster City (1933)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 87 state decisions — followed in 16 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.
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 97 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If a party has in his possession goods or other property belong- ' ing to another, and refuses to deliver such property to that other unless the latter pays him a sum of money which he has no right to receive, and the latter, in order to obtain possession of his property, pays that sum, the money so paid is a payment by compulsion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lonergan v. Buford
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.