Hammond Packing Company v. State of Arkansas’s Empirical Analysis
212 U.S. 322 · 1909
Citation profile
201 federal appellate · 38 district · 335 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 816 later decisions (54 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2023 · most notably Boddie v. Connecticut (1971), Insurance Corp. of Ireland v. Compagnie Des Bauxites De Guinee (1982)
201 federal appellate · 38 district · 335 state decisions — followed in 40 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 Boyd v. United States · Edwin Hale v. William Henkel · Counselman v. Hitchcock · Brown v. Walker · Monongahela Navigation Co. 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 816 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an admission of the want of merit in the asserted defense.”
27 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent““As the power to strike an answer out and enter a default, conferred by § 9 of the act of 1905, which is before us, is clearly referable to the undoubted right of the lawmaking authority to create a presumption in respect to the want of foundation of an asserted defense against a defendant who suppresses or fails to produce evidence when legally called upon to give or produce, our opinion is that the contention that the section was repugnant to the Constitution of the United States is without foundation. * * * ””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent““The ruling in Hovey v. Elliott was that, to punish for contempt by striking an answer from the files and condemning, as by default, was a denial of due process of law, and therefore repugnant to the 14th Amendment.” Hammond Pack. Co. v. State, 81 Ark. 519 ( 100 S. W. 407, 1199 , 126 Am. St. Rep. 1047 ), 212 U. S. 322 , 15 Ann. Cas. 645, 53 L. Ed. 530 , 29 Sup. Ct. Rep. 370, 379).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.