Hill v. . Beebe’s Empirical Analysis
1856
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently January 1966 · most notably James v. Appel (1904), Farmers' Nat. Bank of Tecumseh v. McCall (1910)
1 federal appellate · 34 state decisions — followed in 12 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.
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““That case contains so thorough an exposition of the doctrine, both upon principle and authority, that it would be useless now to enlarge upon it. The proposition is, indeed, quite elementary, that the mere act of tailing a new security from the same party, and upon the same property, does not merge or extinguish a prior one, where both are of the same quality and degree.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Alferitz v. Ingalls
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.