McHenry v. . Hazard’s Empirical Analysis
1871
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1954
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 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.
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There is an ancient jurisdiction in this court to order bills, policies of insurance, and annuity deeds to be delivered up, and it is a wholesome jurisdiction, to order void instruments to be delivered up, upon which vexatious demands might afterward be set up.””
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.