Hughes v. Northern Pac. Ry. Co.’s Empirical Analysis
18 F. 106 · 1883
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently February 1930
1 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 Transportation Company v. Chicago · Fertilizing Company v. Hyde Park · Union Pacific Railroad Company v. Hall et al. · Cowell v. Springs Co. · Block v. Commissioners
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A controversy which turns upon the existence, effect, or operation of an act of congress, arises under such act, and a suit brought to determine the saméis a case arising under such act, within the meaning of the statute.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Miller v. Wattier
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.