Hancock National Bank v. Farnum’s Empirical Analysis
176 U.S. 640 · 1900
Citation profile
36 federal appellate · 7 district · 100 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 243 later decisions (45 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2011 · most notably Toucey v. New York Life Insurance (1941), John Haddock v. Harriet Haddock (1906)
36 federal appellate · 7 district · 100 state decisions — followed in 29 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 Hawkins v. Glenn · Embry v. Palmer · Crescent City Live-Stock Landing Slaughter-House Co v. Butchers' Union Slaughter-House Live-Stock Landing Co · George Whitman v. National Bank of Oxford
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 243 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Full Faith and Credit shall be given in each State to the public Acts, Records, and judicial Proceedings of every other State. And the Congress may by general Laws prescribe the Manner in which such Acts, Records and Proceedings shall be proved, and the Effect thereof.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““This case brings to our consideration the same constitutional and statutory provisions of the state of Kansas which were before us in Whitman v. Oxford National Bank, ante, 563. In that case we- decided that a plaintiff, after the recovery of a judgment against a Kansas corporation in the courts of Kansas, and the return of an execution unsatisfied, could maintain an action in any court of competent jurisdiction against a stockholder of the corporation to recover in satisfaction of his judgment an amount not exceeding the par value of the defendant’s stock.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Childs v. Blethen““It may be conceded, then, that the judgments and decrees of the circuit court of the United States, sitting in a particular State, in the courts of that State, are to be accorded such effect, and such effect only, as would be accorded in similar circumstances to the judgments and decrees of a State tribunal of equal authority. ’ ’”
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.