Thomas Hamilton v. James Russell’s Empirical Analysis
5 U.S. 309 · 1803
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2016 · most notably Edward Prigg v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (1842), Union Trust Co. v. Wilson (1905)
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 21 state decisions — followed in 15 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 Fenwick v. Sears's Administrators
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.