Allen v. Hanks’s Empirical Analysis
136 U.S. 300 · 1890
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 10 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions (9 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2016 · most notably United States v. Oregon (1935), Sharon v. Tucker (1892)
4 federal appellate · 10 district · 12 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 James Boyce's Executors v. Felix Grundy · Watson v. Sutherland · John Orton v. George Smith · Alexander v. Graham
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This court has often been called upon to consider the sixteenth section of the judiciary act of 1789, and as often, either expressly or by the course of its decisions, has held that it is merely declaratory, making no alteration whatever in the rules of equity on the subject of legal remedy. It is not enough that there is a remedy at law. It must be plain and adequate, or, in other words, as practical and efficient to the ends of justice and its prompt administration as the remedy in equity.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“as practical and as efficient to the ends of justice and its prompt administration, as the remedy in equity.”
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.