Hartranft v. Wiegmann’s Empirical Analysis
121 U.S. 609 · 1887
Citation profile
97 federal appellate · 12 district · 58 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 399 later decisions (30 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2020 · most notably Diamond v. Chakrabarty (1980), Stratton's Independence, Ltd. v. Howbert (1913)
97 federal appellate · 12 district · 58 state decisions — followed in 15 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 United States v. Isham · Mumford v. Wardwell · Lawrence v. Allen · United States v. Potts
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 399 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“having a distinctive name, character or use.”
17 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““But, if the question were one of doubt, the doubt would be resolved in favor of the importer, as duties are never imposed upon the citizen upon vague or doubtful interpretation.””
3 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.