Nelson & Hatch v. Dunn’s Empirical Analysis
1849
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 60 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently January 1998 · most notably Phillips v. Sipsey Coal Mining Co. (1928), Davis v. Anderson (1929)
1 federal appellate · 60 state decisions — followed in 10 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 Kirkman v. Vanlier
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is true, the allegations of the cross-bill must relate to the subject-matter in controversy in the original bill; but the rule does not, as is supposed by the counsel, restrict its office so as to confine it to the issues in the original cause.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Powers v. Hibbard
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.