Hammond v. Johnston’s Empirical Analysis
142 U.S. 73 · 1891
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions (27 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1989 · most notably Kalb v. Feuerstein (1940), Kalb v. Feuerstein (1940)
6 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 Murdock v. City of Memphis · Gibson v. Chouteau · United States v. Carr · Hale v. Akers
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is well settled that where the Supreme Court of a State decides a Federal question in rendering a judgment, and also decides against the plaintiff in error upon an independent ground not involving a Federal question and broad enough to maintain the judgment, the writ of error will be dismissed without considering the Féderal question.”
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.