Hampton v. M'Connel’s Empirical Analysis
16 U.S. 234 · 1818
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 8 district · 124 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 224 later decisions (19 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2018 · most notably Hilton v. Guyot (1895), Williams v. State of North Carolina (1945)
20 federal appellate · 8 district · 124 state decisions — followed in 31 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 Mills v. Duryee · Brudenell v. Vaux · Armstrong v. Carson's Executors
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 224 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A judgment of a state court has the same credit * * * and effect in every other court within the United States, which it had in the state where it was rendered; and whatever pleas would be good to a suit thereon, in such state, and none others, can be pleaded in any other court within the United States.””
13 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.