Benjamin Sims v. Thomas Hundley’s Empirical Analysis
47 U.S. 1 · 1848
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions (10 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2023 · most notably Kuhn v. Fairmont Coal Co. (1910), Mason City & Fort Dodge Railroad v. Boynton (1907)
19 federal appellate · 3 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 Moses Groves v. Robert Slaughter · The Marine Insurance Company of Alexandria v. Hodgson
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The rules of evidence prescribed by the statute of a state are always followed by the courts of the United States, when sitting in the state, in commercial eases as well as in others.””
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.