Hedden v. Richard’s Empirical Analysis
149 U.S. 346 · 1893
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2005 · most notably Hoffman v. Palmer (1942), Cadwalader v. Zeh (1894)
18 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 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 Nelson Elliott v. Samuel Swartwout · Arthur v. Lahey · Swan v. Arthur · The United States v. One Hundred and Twelve Casks of Sugar
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In such case, as in the other case, the words are to be taken in the sense in which they will be naturally understood by those to whom they are addressed (p. 350).”
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.