Hodges v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
203 U.S. 1 · 1906
Citation profile
124 federal appellate · 40 district · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 329 later decisions (46 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2023 · most notably Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. (1970), Pierce v. Society of the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary Same (1925)
124 federal appellate · 40 district · 22 state decisions — followed in 10 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 Gibbons v. Ogden · United States v. Cruikshank · Plessy v. Ferguson · Strauder v. West Virginia · Logan v. United States
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 329 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“All understand by these terms [slavery and involuntary servitude] a condition of enforced compulsory service of one to another,”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The district courts shall have original jurisdiction of any civil action authorized by law to be commenced by any person: * * * * * * “(3) To redress the deprivation, under color of any State law, statute, ordinance, regulation, custom or usage, of any right, privilege or immunity secured by the Constitution of the United States or by any Act of Congress providing for equal rights of citizens or of all persons within the jurisdiction of the United States;””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“the state of entire subjection of one person to the will of another”
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.