Hunt v. Palao’s Empirical Analysis
45 U.S. 589 · 1846
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 2 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1912 · most notably McAllister v. United States (1891), Gordon v. United States (1864)
7 federal appellate · 2 district · 8 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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Territorial Court of Appeals was a court of the United States, and the control of its records therefore belongs to the general government, and not to the state authorities; and.it rests with-Congress to declare to what tribunal these records and proceedings shall be transferred; and how these judgments shall be carried into execution, or reviewed upon appeal or writ of error.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“"The court which rendered the judgment in the'case before us is no longer in existence. The proceedings are not in the possession of any court authorized to exercise judicial power over them, but are in the possession of the officer of another court merely for the purpose of safe-keeping.””
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.