Chicago St Ry Co v. Hoyt’s Empirical Analysis
149 U.S. 1 · 1893
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 19 district · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 103 later decisions (9 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1996 · most notably United States v. Winstar Corp. (1996), Columbus Ry Power Light Co v. City of Columbus Ohio (1919)
27 federal appellate · 19 district · 30 state decisions — followed in 11 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.
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 103 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““But where the event is of such a character that it cannot be reasonably supposed to have been in the contemplation of the contracting parties when the contract was made, they' will not he held hound by general words, which, though large enough to include, were not used with reference to, the possibility of the particular contingency which afterwards happens.””
6 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.