Hyde Gleises Locket v. Booraem Company’s Empirical Analysis
41 U.S. 169 · 1842
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2013 · most notably William Shields v. Robert R Barrow (1854), Commercial Mutual Accident Co. v. Davis (1909)
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 19 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 M'Culloch v. State of Maryland · Green v. Biddle · Miller v. Stewart · Morgan's heirs v. Morgan · James M'Donald v. Freeman Smalley
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We have no authority, as an appellate court, upon a writ of error, to revise the evidence in the court below, in order to ascertain whether the judge rightly interpreted the evidence or drew right conclusions from it. That is the proper province of the jury, or of the judge himself, if the trial by jury is waived, and it is submitted to his personal decision.” Hyde v. Booraem, 16 Pet. 169 , 176 ( 10 L. Ed. 926 ).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““ * * * On principles of general justice, if the acts are to be done at the same time, neither party to such a contract can claim a fulfilment thereof, unless he has first performed or is ready to perform all the acts required on his own part.” (Emphasis added.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Wms. Saunders, 319. This is what the French law calls “ a commutative contract, involving mutual and reciprocal obligations, where the acts to be done on one side form the consideration for those to be done on the other,”
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.