Hunt v. Blackburn’s Empirical Analysis
128 U.S. 464 · 1888
Citation profile
86 federal appellate · 40 district · 98 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 373 later decisions (11 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2025 · most notably Upjohn Company v. United States (1981), United States v. Zolin (1989)
86 federal appellate · 40 district · 98 state decisions — followed in 33 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.
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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 373 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is founded upon the necessity, in the interest and administration of justice, of the aid of persons having knowledge of the law and skilled in its practice, which assistance can only be safely and readily availed of when free from the consequences or the apprehension of disclosure”
19 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the whole remained to the survivor under the original grant,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Weil v. Commissioner
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.