Hartranft v. Langfeld’s Empirical Analysis
125 U.S. 128 · 1888
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions (16 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1966 · most notably Magone v. Wiederer (1895), Robertson v. Edelhoff (1890)
2 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 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.
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“All goods, wares, and merchandise, not specially enumerated or provided for in this act, made of silk, or of which silk is the component material of chief value, fifty per centum ad valorem.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“braids, plaits, fiats, laces, trimmings, tissues, willow sheets and'-squares,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“there was no controversy in the evidence as to whether these velvet ribbons were or were not trimmings; all the witnesses agreed. that they were.”
2 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.