Hopper v. . Hopper’s Empirical Analysis
1891
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently May 1967 · most notably Blackstone v. Miller (1903), Helme v. . Buckelew (1920)
2 federal appellate · 41 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 Robinson v. Oceanic Steam Navigation Co. · Johnson v. . Wallis · Gardner v. Thomas · Cummings v. Banks
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.
““Before the Code, and before the Revised Statutes, the foreign executor who came into our jurisdiction and intermeddled with assets here could be sued as executor de son tort. The law regarded him not as a foreign executor, but an executor here, having made himself such by his own wrongful conduct.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Courtney v. Pradt
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.