Hall v. Cordell’s Empirical Analysis
142 U.S. 116 · 1891
Citation profile
52 federal appellate · 8 district · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 102 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1977 · most notably Bigelow v. Old Dominion Copper Mining & Smelting Co. (1912), Old Dominion Copper Mining & Smelting Co. v. Bigelow (1909)
52 federal appellate · 8 district · 26 state decisions — followed in 13 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 Scudder v. Union National Bank · Boyce and Henry v. Timothy Edwards · Flato v. Mulhall · New York & Virginia State Stock Bank v. Gibson
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 102 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“But where there is nothing to show that the parties had in view, in respect to the execution of the” contract, any other law than the law of the place of performance, that law must determine the rights of the parties.”
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.