Hague v. Ahrens’s Empirical Analysis
53 F. 58 · 1892
Citation profile
4 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1938
4 federal appellate ·
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 Spear v. Fuller · Hynes v. Ecker
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A clause in a lease will not be treated as a condition if it can be construed to be a covenant without doing violence to its terms; and, if the purpose to create a condition or conditional limitation is not expressed in clear, unequivocal language, the clause will be treated as a covenant simply.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In re Pennewell
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.