Hall v. Stout’s Empirical Analysis
1871
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently December 2003
2 federal appellate · 1 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.
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Bills to perpetúate testimony proceed, not on the ground of imminent risk of loss before a pending' suit can reach trial, but on the ground that, the party not being in a situation to bring his title to a trial, his evidence may be lost through lapse of time, the risk affecting all the evidence, irrespective of any particular condition of a witness. The right to this relief, therefore, does not depend upon the condition of a witness, but upon the situation of the party, and his power to bring his rights to an immediate investigation. , “.It is true, as stated by Sir John Leach in Angelí v. Angelí [1 Sim. & St. 83], that this jurisdiction is open to objections, but these are practically obviated by requiring, in the first place, that the party seeking the relief show his total inability to bring his title to trial, and also by keeping the testimony, when taken, sealed and not to be opened except by special order upon evidence' showing the death or absence of the witness, or his inability to attend the trial — a rule rigidly enforced.””
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.