Hughes v. Blake’s Empirical Analysis
19 U.S. 453 · 1821
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions (13 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2019 · most notably Godden v. Kimmell (1878), United States v. California & Oregon Land Co. (1893)
2 federal appellate · 11 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 1 Johns. Cas. 436 - Le Guen v. Gouverneur · The Jonquille
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The truth of the plea, being thus made out, what is to be the consequence? If the rule of courts -of equity in England is to be applied, there can bé ñó doubt. If a plea, in the apprehension of the complainant,' be good in matter, but not true in fact, he may reply to it, as has been done here, and- proceed to examine witnesses in the same way as in' case of a replication to an answer; but such a proceeding is always an admission of the sufficiency of the plea itself, as much so as if it had been set down for argument and allowed ; and if the facts relied on by the plea are proved, a dismission of the bill on the hearing is a matter of course.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Pearce v. Rice
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.