Hager v. Swayne’s Empirical Analysis
149 U.S. 242 · 1893
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 3 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions (19 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2008 · most notably United States v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Co. (1949), United States v. Jefferson Electric Manufacturing Co. (1934)
4 federal appellate · 3 district · 3 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 Cheatham v. United States · Goodman v. Niblack · Arnson v. Murphy · Butler v. Goreley · Arnson v. Murphy
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The legislation shows that the intent of Congress was that the assignment of naked claims against the government for the purpose of suit, or in view of litigation or otherwise, should not be countenanced. At common law, the transfer of a mere right to recover in an action at law was forbidden as violating the rule against maintenance and champerty; and, although the rigor of that rule has been relaxed, an assignment of a chose in action' will not be sanctioned when it is opposed to any rule of law or public policy.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ball v. Halsell“Castro had purchased the merchandise of. the importer while it was in bond, and pending an appeal, and after the decision of the appeal paid the duties assessed in order to obtain possession of the property, and thereupon brought' the suit, . . . the purchaser obtained an interest in the thing itself”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Seeberger v. Castro“when such amount of duties was not, or was not wholly, authorized by law,”
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.