Hart v. Eyck’s Empirical Analysis
1816
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 3 district · 63 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 93 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 1986 · most notably Meinhard v. Salmon (1928), Westinghouse Electric Manufacturing Company v. Wagner Electric & Manufacturing Company (1912)
8 federal appellate · 3 district · 63 state decisions — followed in 24 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.
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 93 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ If a party having charge of the property of others, so confounds it with his own, that the line of distinction cannot be traced, all the inconvenience of the confusion is thrown upon the party who produces it, and it is for him to distinguish his own property or lose it.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.