Nix v. Hedden’s Empirical Analysis
149 U.S. 304 · 1893
Citation profile
36 federal appellate · 3 district · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 137 later decisions (10 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2024 · most notably Cybor Corporation v. Fas Technologies, Inc., and Fastar Ltd., Defendants-Cross (1998), Bostock v. Clayton County (2020)
36 federal appellate · 3 district · 22 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 Jones v. United States · Brown v. Piper · Robertson v. Salomon
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 137 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Of that meaning the court is bound to take judicial notice, as it does in regard to all words in our own tongue; and upon such a question dictionaries are admitted, not as evidence, but only as aids to the memory and understanding of the court.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Botanically speaking, tomatoes are the fruit of a vine, just as are cucumbers, ■squashes, beans and peas. But in the common language of the people, whether sellers or consumers of provisions, all these are vegetables, which are grown in kitchen gardens, and which, whether eaten cooked or raw, are, like potatoes, ■carrots, parsnips, turnips, beets, cauliflower, cabbage, celery and lettuce, usually served at dinner in, with or after the soup, fish or meats which constitute the principal part of the repast, and not, like fruits generally, as dessert.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The passages cited from the dictionaries define the word ‘fruit’ as the se.ed, of plants, or that part of plants which contains the seed, and especially thejuicy pulpy products of certain plants, covering and containing the seed. These definitions have no tendency to show that tomatoes are ‘fruit’ as distinguished from ‘vegetables’ in common speech, or within the meaning of the tariff act. * * * Botanically speaking, tomatoes are the fruit of a vine,just as are cucumbers, squashes, beans, and peas. But in the common language of the people, whether sellers or consumer", of provisions, all these are vegetables.””
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.