Hume v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
132 U.S. 406 · 1889
Citation profile
48 federal appellate · 27 district · 293 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 505 later decisions (11 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2020 · most notably Muschany v. United States (1945), At&T Mobility LLC v. Concepcion (2011)
48 federal appellate · 27 district · 293 state decisions — followed in 32 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.
Relationships
Relies on Whiteside v. United States · Scott v. United States · Cutler v. How · Leland v. Stone
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 505 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“such as no man in his sense and not under delusion would make on the one hand, and as no honest and fair man would accept on the other.”
32 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““And there may be contracts so extortionate and unconscionable on their face as to raise the presumption of fraud in their inception, or at least to require but slight additional evidence to justify such presumption. In such eases, the natural and irresistible inference of fraud is as efficacious to maintain the defense at law as to sustain an application for affirmative relief in equity.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“If a contract be unreasonable and unconscionable, but not void for fraud, a court of law will give to the party who sues for its breach damages, not according to its letter, but only such as he is equitably entitled to.”
3 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.