Swarts v. Hammer’s Empirical Analysis
194 U.S. 441 · 1904
Citation profile
72 federal appellate · 33 district · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 234 later decisions (22 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2013 · most notably Kelly v. Robinson (1986), Midlantic National Bank v. New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (1986)
72 federal appellate · 33 district · 15 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedSwarts v. Hammer (from Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on M'Culloch v. State of Maryland · Robbins v. Taxing District of Shelby Co Tennessee · Hanover National Bank v. Moyses · Pullman's Palace-Car Co v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · Leloup v. Port of Mobile
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 234 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[b]y the transfer to the trustee no mysterious or peculiar ownership or qualities are given to the property,”
16 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.