Hathaway v. Brady’s Empirical Analysis
1864
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently September 2010
13 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.
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.
““ San Francisco, August 26th, 1863. “ One day after the. entry of an order in the Supreme Court affirming judgment in the Third District Court, Alameda County, of Hathaway v. Brady, or if such judgment is not affirmed, one day after demand, without grace, we promise, for value received, to pay W. "W. Crane, at our office in San Francisco, in United States gold coin, of the present standard of fineness and value, two thousand five hundred dollars, with interest, payable in like gold coin, atone and one fourth per cent per month. “PATTERSOU & STOW.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.