Hunter v. Russell’s Empirical Analysis
59 F. 964 · 1894
Citation profile
1 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1973
1 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 Randall v. Baltimore O R · Smith v. Chicago & N. W. Ry. Co.
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In the case of Prouty v. Draper, 2 Story, 199 , Fed. Cas. No. 11,447, this section [863] came up for consideration. * * * In this the distinguished Justice Story held that the taking of a deposition under that section was a privilege to be exercised at the option of the party desiring the evidence of a witness living more than 100 miles from the place of trial, and that the opposite party had no'right to demand that, under such circumstances, a deposition should be taken. Having, then, the right to compel the attendance of a witness from any point within the district, and having the option to take a deposition if living at the distance named, it does not seem to me to be going too far to hold that, if the litigant does not exercise the option to take the evidence of his witness by deposition, he can recover for what he is compelled to pay his witness by law as traveling fees.” ^”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hanchett v. Humphrey
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.