Hill v. Chicago & Evanston Railroad’s Empirical Analysis
129 U.S. 170 · 1889
Citation profile
11 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1940 · most notably John Simmons Co. v. Grier Bros. (1922), Glenn v. Liggett (1890)
11 federal appellate ·
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is well settled by the decisions of this court that it has no Jurisdiction of an appeal unless the transcript of the record is filed here at the next term after the taking of the appeal.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.