Huntington v. Attrill’s Empirical Analysis
146 U.S. 657 · 1892
Citation profile
297 federal appellate · 124 district · 586 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,587 later decisions (126 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2024 · most notably BMW of North America, Inc. v. Gore (1996), State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance v. Campbell (2003)
297 federal appellate · 124 district · 586 state decisions — followed in 46 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 Logan v. United States · Burgess v. Seligman · Martin Fairfax v. Hunter's · Thompson v. Whitman
Cited together with Chattanooga Foundry & Pipe Works v. City of Atlanta · Brady v. Daly · Milwaukee County v. M. E. White Co. · Erie Co v. Tompkins · The Antelope the Vice-Consuls of Spain and Portugal
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 1,587 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“whether the wrong sought to be redressed is a wrong to the public, or a wrong to the individual”
31 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A] pecuniary sanction operates as a penalty only if it is sought 'for the purpose of punishment, and to deter others from offending in like manner' ....”
28 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“punishment, whether corporal or pecuniary, imposed and enforced by the State, for a crime or offen[s]e against its laws.”
20 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.