Harbeck v. . Vanderbilt’s Empirical Analysis
1859
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently February 1995 · most notably Dodge et al. v. Freedman's Savings and Trust Company (1876), Zimmerman v. Gaumer (1899)
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 33 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.
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ Cornelius Vanderbilt did not actually pay any portion of the judgment, but he became contingently liable to pay it, and an assignment of the judgment to protect him against this liability was just as legitimate and proper as it would have been to indemnify him for money paid. “ Here then is an assignment made, evincing an evident intention not to satisfy the judgment, but to keep it in force for the benefit of somebody. It was perfectly equitable and just, as well as legal, that it should be kept in force as to the defendants who had paid nothing upon it, for the benefit of one who had made himself liable in a certain contingency to pay it.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Chappell v. McKeough
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.