William Hopkins v. Charles Hebard’s Empirical Analysis
235 U.S. 287 · 1914
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 2 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions (8 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2007 · most notably Hazel-Atlas Glass Co. v. Hartford-Empire Co. (1944), Toledo Scale Co. v. Computing Scale Co. (1923)
19 federal appellate · 2 district · 24 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedHopkins v. Hebard (from Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Thomas v. Gabrielle Brockenbrough · Ricker v. Powell · Craig v. Smith · State of North Carolina v. State of Tennessee
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““What we do mean to decide is that in our opinion, taking into- account not only the speculative purchase by appellants, hut also the good-faith purchase by the Smoky Mountain Company, a case is not presented which appeals to the equitable discretion of the court to allow the review of a decree upon the ground alone of newly discovéred evidence. We rest our decision solely upon this proposition.””
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.