Combs v. Hodge’s Empirical Analysis
62 U.S. 397 · 1858
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 1956 · most notably Delaware County Commissioners v. Diebold Safe & Lock Co. (1890), State of South Dakota v. State of North Carolina (1904)
27 federal appellate · 7 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 William Jodson v. William W Corcoran · Scott v. Shreeve · Dunn v. Commercial Bank · Chesley v. Taylor
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The parties to that spit were different, and the petition and answer are signed by counsel, and not by the parties, and cannot be resorted to for admissions of the respective parties.” Combs v. Hodge, 62 U. S. (21 How.) 397, 404, 16 L. Ed. 115 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.