John Hawkins and William May v. Joshua Barney's Lessee’s Empirical Analysis
30 U.S. 457 · 1831
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 1 district · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 98 later decisions (34 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2018 · most notably Erie Co v. Tompkins (1938), Home Building & Loan Ass'n v. Blaisdell (1934)
14 federal appellate · 1 district · 26 state decisions — followed in 15 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 Jackson ex dem. Curtis v. Bronson · Hubbell v. Coudrey · Hess v. Werts · Gaskins v. Commonwealth
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 98 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is not to be questioned that laws limiting the time of bringing suit constitute a part of the lex fori of ever}' country. They are laws for the administering justice — one of the most sacred and important sovereign rights and duties — and a restriction which must materially affect both legislative and judicial independence.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“What right has any one to complain, when a reasonable time has been given to him, if he has not been vigilant in asserting his rights?”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The right to appropriate a derelict is one of universal law, well known to the civil law, the common law, and to all law: it existed in a state of nature, and is only modified by society, according to the discretion of each community. What is the evidence of an individual having abandoned his rights or property? It is clear that the subject is one over which every community is at liberty to make a rule for itself. . . .” (Emphasis added.) 30 U.S. at 467 .”
3 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.