Hirschman v. Forster’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently February 1951
6 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 Rogers, County Treasurer v. Bass Harbour Co. · Jefferson v. Gallagher · Anglea v. McMaster · Hanson v. Wolcott · Thraves v. Greenlees
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Nor did the court have jurisdiction of the particular subject-matter of the action, for the reason that under the allegations, as we are now assuming them, as above stated, even if treated as an amendment, the allegations of the supplemental bill brought into the action a new claim which the court was not justified in allowing, and which it had no jurisdiction to consider in that action.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Either party may be allowed, on notice and on such terms, as to costs, as the court may prescribe, to file a supplemental petition, answer or reply, alleging facts material to the case occurring after the former petition, answer or reply.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sharp v. Dougherty
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.