Hardman v. Brett’s Empirical Analysis
37 F. 803 · 1889
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently March 1958
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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 The Maggie Hammond · Propeller Niagara v. Cordes · Commander-in-chief · White v. Webb · Moran v. Portland Steam Packet 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Every bailee has a temporary qualified property in the thing of which possession is delivered to him by the bailor, which entitles him to maintain an action against any stranger who injures it; and the reason is because he is answerable over to the bailor and ought not to be responsible for the loss 'without being able to resort to the person who was the original cause of the injury.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.