Holmes v. . Hubbard’s Empirical Analysis
1875
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1939
9 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it is a rule for the construction of all written instruments, conveying property, that if a general clause be followed by special words, the instrument shall be construed according to the special matterand in the application of this rule it is held that the general words of an assign ment should be restricted by a subsequent clause referring to a schedule annexed for a more full description;”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bock v. Perkins
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.