Hymes v. . Esty’s Empirical Analysis
1892
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently March 1994 · most notably Fifth Mutual Building Society of Manayunk's Appeal (1934), Merchants' Nat. Bank of Clinton v. Otero (1918)
2 federal appellate · 23 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.
Relationships
Relies on Huyck v. . Andrews · City of Buffalo v. . Pratt · Hymes v. . Estey · Pitcher v. Livingston · Robert v. . Sadler
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 was held that the case was taken out of the ordinary rule that the existence of a public highway at the time of the conveyance of lands with covenant for quiet enjoyment or against incumbrances is not a breach of such covenant. It was there declared that such rule was limited to cases where the public easement was open and visible and in actual use, and had no application to cases like the present, where, if the plaintiff’s contention is true, there was at the time of the purchase no indication of the existence of a highway. That decision proceeded upon sound and just principles, and we see no occasion to restrict or modify it in any respect.””
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.