Northrop v. . Hill’s Empirical Analysis
1874
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently December 1960 · most notably Oppenheimer v. Harriman Nat Bank & Trust Co of City of New York Harriman Nat Bank & Trust Co of City of New York (1937), Lattin v. Gillette (1892)
1 federal appellate · 29 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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The cause of action in that case was derived from the breach of the implied contract on the part of the newspaper proprietor to publish the partnership notice with due care and diligence. That breach was complete when the newspaper containing the notice was issued. All that subsequently followed was merely the development of the damages resulting from the original wrong.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Campbell v. Culver
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.