Hansen v. Boyd’s Empirical Analysis
161 U.S. 397 · 1896
Citation profile
108 federal appellate · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 159 later decisions (15 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2004 · most notably Dimick v. Schiedt (1935), 179 Ill. 2d 367 - Best v. Taylor MacHine Works (1997)
108 federal appellate · 24 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 Bibb v. Allen · Runkle v. Burnham · Phillips and Colby Construction Company v. Seymour et al. · Koenigsberger v. Richmond Silver Min Co Richmond Silver Min Co · Washington & Georgetown Railroad v. Harmon's Administrator
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 159 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“permit the party, in whose favor a verdict or judgment has been returned or entered, to avoid the granting of a new trial on account of error effecting only a part thereof, by entering a remittitur as to such erroneous part, when the court can clearly distinguish and separate the same.”
2 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.