Hershey v. Blakesley’s Empirical Analysis
33 F. 922 · 1888
Citation profile
2 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently March 1955
2 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.
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““1 am fully aware of the ease with which honest witnesses can persuade themselves that they remember some by-gone circumstance which they are ingeniously induced to think that they remember; but, in this case, I do not perceive any manipulation of these witnesses, and I think that their testimony was not manufactured, and they were not mistaken. There is nothing improbable, either by reason of the state of the art or of the character of the improvement, in the history which is given.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sackett v. Smith
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.