Hackley v. Headley’s Empirical Analysis
1881
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2015 · most notably Coppage v. State (1915), Hartsville Oil Mill v. United States (1926)
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 56 state decisions — followed in 20 states
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 Silliman v. United States · Harmony v. . Bingham · Spaids v. Barrett · Scholey v. . Mumford · Vyne v. Glenn
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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ Duress exists when one by the unlawful act of another is induced to make a contract or perform some act under circumstances which deprive him of the exercise of free will.””
4 later decisions 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.