State of Minnesota v. Ethan Allen Hitchcock’s Empirical Analysis
185 U.S. 373 · 1902
Citation profile
188 federal appellate · 137 district · 48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 694 later decisions (134 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2021 · most notably United States v. Mitchell (1983), Larson v. Domestic & Foreign Commerce Corp. (1949)
188 federal appellate · 137 district · 48 state decisions — followed in 18 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 Osborn v. President Directors and Company of the Bank of the United States · Samuel Worcester v. The State of Georgia · In re Ayers · Wisconsin v. Pelican Insurance
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 694 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * whether a suit is one against a state is to be determined, not by the fact of the party named as defendant on the record, but by the result of the judgment or decree which may be entered.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“from what has been done there results a certain defined tract appropriated for certain purposes.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'subject to sale or other disposal under general laws.”
3 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.