Mendenhall v. Hall’s Empirical Analysis
134 U.S. 559 · 1890
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 2 district · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1996 · most notably Bank of Rondout v. Smith (1895), Moss v. Kansas City Life Ins. (1938)
26 federal appellate · 2 district · 21 state decisions — followed in 10 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 30 La. Ann. 689 - Austin v. Citizens' Bank & Sheriff · Lannes v. Workingmen's Bank · Miller v. Montagne · Barrow v. Lapene
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If the plaintiff was entitled to have the property sold in satisfaction of the debt secured by the mortgage, it was his right to have it sold, freed from any apparent claim thereon wrongly asserted by the holder of the tax title. Such relief could not be had without making the latter a party to the suit.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““There is no ground 1» question the jurisdiction of this court to proceed to a hearing of the appeal. The record was filed in this court on the day to which the appeal was returnable. Our jurisdiction did not depend upon a citation being issued.””
1 later decision 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.