Seton v. Hoyt’s Empirical Analysis
1899
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently September 2004 · most notably Lundgren v. Freeman (1962), Harrison v. Louisiana Highway Commission (1942)
8 federal appellate · 18 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.
Relationships
Relies on Chew Heong v. United States · United States v. State of North Carolina · United States Angarica De La Rua v. Bayard · Chapman v. Board of County Com'rs of the County of Douglas · Cromwell v. County of Sac
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the legal rate of interest is six percent per annum and is payable on: "(a) All moneys after they become due; but open accounts bear interest from the date of the last item thereof. * * * * * * * * "(d) Money due upon the settlement of matured accounts from the day the balance is ascertained.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lundgren v. Freeman
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.