Hunt v. New York Cotton Exchange’s Empirical Analysis
205 U.S. 322 · 1907
Citation profile
143 federal appellate · 91 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 363 later decisions (39 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1998 · most notably McNutt v. General Motors Acceptance Corp. (1936), Hunt v. Washington State Apple Advertising Commission (1977)
143 federal appellate · 91 district · 7 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 Watson v. Jones · STANTON v. Embrey, Administrator · Board of Trade v. Christie Grain & Stock Co. · Wetmore v. Rymer
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 363 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The jurisdictional amount is to be tested by the' value of the object to be gained by complainant.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““On the issue presented by the plea, the burden of proof was upon the appellant, and he was required to establish by a preponderance of the evidence that the amount involved was less than the jurisdictional amount.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hill v. Walker
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.