Mutual Life Ins Co of New York v. Hillmon’s Empirical Analysis
145 U.S. 285 · 1892
Citation profile
386 federal appellate · 51 district · 479 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,104 later decisions (17 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2024 · most notably State v. Sage (1987), Sparf v. United States (1895)
386 federal appellate · 51 district · 479 state decisions — followed in 45 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 Insurance Company v. Mosley · Shailer v. Bumstead · Nicholls v. Webb · Elmer v. Fessenden
Cited together with Shepard v. United States · Ohio v. Roberts · Jackson v. Virginia · Kotteakos v. United States · 24 Cal. 2d 177 - People v. Alcalde
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 1,104 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The existence of a particular intention in a certain person at a certain time being a material fact to be proved, evidence that he expressed that intention at that time is as direct evidence of the fact, as his own testimony that he then had that intention would be.”
23 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Upon an indictment of one Hunter for the murder of one Armstrong at Camden, the Court of Errors and Appeals of New Jersey unanimously held that Armstrong’s oral declarations to his son at Philadelphia, on the afternoon before the night of the murder, as well as a letter written by him at the same time and place to his wife, each stating that he was going with Hunter to Camden on business, were rightly admitted in evidence.” 145 U.S. at 299 , 12 S.Ct. at 914 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““But although the defendants might lawfully be compelled, at the discretion of the court, to try the cases together, the causes of action remain distinct, and required separate verdicts and judgments; and no defendant could be deprived, without its consent, of any right material to its defense, whether by way of challenge of jurors, or of objection to evidence, to which it would have been entitled if the cases had been tried separately.””
2 later decisions 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.