Alexander v. Hillman’s Empirical Analysis
296 U.S. 222 · 1935
Citation profile
214 federal appellate · 51 district · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 529 later decisions (21 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2023 · most notably Brown v. Board of Education (1955), Granfinanciera, S.A. v. Nordberg (1989)
214 federal appellate · 51 district · 25 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
reviewedAlexander v. Hillman (from Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Moore v. New York Cotton Exchange · General Inv Co v. Lake Shore & M S Ry Co · Greene v. Louisville & Interurban Railroad · Geddes v. Anaconda Copper Mining Co. · Salem Trust Co. v. Manufacturers' Finance Co.
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 529 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“by presenting their claims * * * subject[ ] themselves to all the consequences that attach to an appearance,”
19 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Respondents appropriately presented their claims and became entitled to adjudication without petition for intervention, any formal pleading or commencement of suit. Unquestionably, they submitted themselves to the court’s jurisdiction in respect of all defense that might be made by the receivers and of all objections that other claimants might interpose to the validity, amounts, or priorities of their claims. And they put themselves in position, should their interest warrant, to challenge the receivers’ acts and the demands of others claiming as creditors.’’ 296 U.S. pages 238-239, 56 S.Ct. page 209. jf: ij: í{í íjc”
2 later decisions 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.