Hathaway v. First Nat Bank of Cambridge’s Empirical Analysis
134 U.S. 494 · 1890
Citation profile
68 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 83 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1958 · most notably Neely v. Henkel (No. 2) (1901), De La Vergne Refrigerating Machine Company v. German Savings Institution (1899)
68 federal appellate · 2 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 The " Francis Wright" · St Tammany Water-Works Co v. New Orleans Water-Works Co · McClure v. United States · Merchants' Insurance v. Allen
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 83 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It (the court) was, like a. jury, the sole judge of the credibility of the witnesses, and the questions were questions of fact, on the evidence. It would serve no good purpose to examine the evidence critically, nor it is our province to do so. It is sufficient to say that the case was not one where there was no evidence to justify the findings of the court.-””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Noland v. Owens““Tbe first three assignments of error allege errors merely in the findings of fact by the court. These errors are not subject to revision by this court if there was any evidence upon which such findings could be made.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. King v. Smith
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.