Hickory Farm Oil Co. v. Buffalo, N. Y. & P. R.’s Empirical Analysis
32 F. 22 · 1887
Citation profile
3 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently October 1918
3 federal appellate ·
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 Jones v. Habersham · John Sinnot Samuel Wolf and James Sands v. Gorham Davenport · Runyan v. Lessee of Coster
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The leading case in Pennsylvania on the subject of the effect of a conveyance of real estate to a corporation forbidden by law to ‘purchase and hold’ the same is that of Leazure v. Hillegas, 7 Serg. & R. [Pa.] 313, in which it was held that such corporation might purchase ,and take title to the real estate; its title, however, like that of an alien, being defeasible at the pleasure of the commonwealth. That case and the later case of Goundie v. Water Co., 7 Pa. 233 , settle the principle that the commonwealth alone can object to a want of capacity in a corporation to hold land.””
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.