Hume v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1886
Citation profile
1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2014
1 district ·
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““such a contract, whether founded on fraud, accident, mistake, folly, or ignorance, is void at common law. It is not necessary to invoke the aid of a court of equity to reform it. Courts of law will always refuse to enforce such a 'bargain, as against the public policy of honesty, fair dealing, and good morals.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It -would be a fraud upon the United States to enforce such a contract as the one now in suit, and it never can be done through the Court of Claims.”
1 later decision 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.