Hostetter v. Park’s Empirical Analysis
137 U.S. 30 · 1890
Citation profile
70 federal appellate · 31 district · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 209 later decisions (8 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2020 · most notably Steamship Willdomino v. Citro Chemical Co. (1927), Republic of France v. French Overseas Corporation the Malcolm Baxter Jr (1928)
70 federal appellate · 31 district · 26 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 The Delaware · Transportation Co. v. Downer · Robinson v. United States · The Gazelle & Cargo
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 209 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is well settled that parties who contract on a subject-matter concerning which known usages prevail incorporate such usages by implication into their agreements, if nothing is said to the contrary.””
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. The Indrapura · The Hog Island“'voluntary departure without necessity, or any reasonable cause, from the regular and usual course”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Parties who contract oh a subject-matter concerning which known usages prevail, by implication incorporate them into their agreements, if nothing is said- to the contrary.” .. . .”
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.